MORE households in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire are being encouraged to think green.

Three more mini-recycling sites have been set up in the district, in Morton-on-Swale, Thrintoft and Allanbrooke Barracks.

The five banks at each centre can take newspapers and magazines; cans, tins and foil; and green, brown and clear glass. They will be emptied in rotation and the contents taken for recycling at sites around the county.

The new sites bring the total of mini-recycling centres in the district to 28, and are additional to the larger sites in the towns of Northallerton, Easingwold, Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton and Stokesley.

The sites are at the Swaledale Arms car park at Morton-on-Swale, the New Inn car park at Thrintoft, and near the single soldiers' accommodation at Allanbrooke Barracks.