YOUNGSTERS have been helping to encourage tidier habits.
A four-pronged project, involving children from Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough, working with countryside wardens from the Guisborough Branch Walkway and artist Jim Roberts, has created two big litter bins.
The aims of the project, which included three workshop sessions at the Walkway, was to raise awareness of the litter problem and its effects on habitat and wildlife.
The galvanised steel sculpted bins are now installed on the disused railway line through the town, highlighted as a litter troublespot.
Another is sited behind the town's rugby club, in Belmangate, and another at the Walkway, near Enfield Chase. There is also a display, showing the initial designs and children's pottery sculptures in the Walkway centre.
Briony Serginson, countryside warden, said: "We've been delighted with the youngsters' enthusiasm and already we can see that more people are using the bins, so it's been an all-round success."
The £2,000 project was funded by the Countryside Agency.
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