YOUNGSTERS are being encouraged to recycle Yellow Pages to raise money for their schools.
Schools in the Sedgefield Borough Council area are taking part in the national recycling scheme, Yellow Woods Challenge.
The scheme, organised by the council and the Butterwick Hospice in Bishop Auckland, awards money to schools that have recycled the most directories per pupil.
Every pound awarded by the Yellow Pages to each school will be matched with a pound for the Woodland Trust to help keep the UK's native woodland.
All participating schools are given environmental educational materials that, with the help of campaign mascot Kirk, bring recycling and woodland conservation messages to life in the classroom.
Schools will be collecting old Yellow Pages this month, which will be taken by volunteers from the hospice to Foremen Recycling of Spennymoor, and turned into animal bedding.
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