A TOWN is being urged to recycle to help a resident win a share of £5,000.

Radka Wigmore, of Queens Road, Whitchurch, has entered the Febreze Freshness Rewards Contest which encourages residents to collect their home care recyclables as part of a race to see which entrant can submit the most items.

The contest is part of a new recycling fundraising initiative called the Febreze Air and Home Care Brigade which enables any brand of air and home care products and packaging to be recycled for the first time.

The high cost of recycling these hard to recycle mixed plastics means the material ends up in landfill all over the UK.

Mrs Wigmore, who is collecting recyclables ranging from plug-in air fresheners to biscuit wrappers, could win up to £500 each for Whitchurch Primary School and Macmillan Cancer Support if she is crowned the overall winner.

She has until April 30 to collect as much as possible, and hopes that the Whitchurch community will back her plight, and will receive one penny for the weight of each product sent in.

She said: “The support of the wider Whitchurch community can really help boost the amount of air and home care waste we save from landfill, our chances of becoming a winner on the Febreze Freshness Rewards Contest and the amount of money we raise for my chosen charities.

“To help my efforts simply drop your used plastic air fresheners and plug-in refills, air and home care product trigger heads, pumps and caps and flexible home cleaning wipe packs of any brand and any of the other types of waste we collect back to the clearly marked outdoor collection boxes found outside number 9 Queens Road in Whitchurch at any time of the day.

“I will then send them in as part of my collections.”