CLEAN-UP campaigners have come up with a canny idea to help the environment.

Residents of Middlesbrough are being encouraged to collect aluminium cans scheduled for the bin and make a few bob in the process.

Middlesbrough Council is asking people to take their tins along to the town's Albert Park today, to a collection point at the park's West Lodge, next to the Cenotaph.

They will be able to exchange their cans for cash - 40p per kilo of aluminium.

Albert Park manager Bill Morton, representatives from North-East Recycling Limited and Friends of Albert Park will help to collect the cans.