PRIMARY schools in Hambleton are being encouraged to take part in a national recycling scheme to raise money for the Salvation Army.
Hambleton District Council is backing the Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd (SATcol) scheme which encourages people to take unwanted clothes, shoes and household textile items into schools and put them into the charity’s recycling bank.
One bank is at Romanby Primary School in Northallerton where governor and Hambleton’s head of environment, Paul Staines, said the children were keen to recycle.
“Textiles are the UK’s fastest growing household waste stream and people sometimes forget it’s just as important to recycle your old clothes as some of the more obvious items like newspapers and bottles,” he said. “We’re helping to divert more clothes from landfill and giving them a new lease of life, while raising money for both the school and the Salvation Army, which does such important work in communities throughout the UK.”
There are also banks at Linton on Ouse and Alne primaries.
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