Burnley FC are delighted to announce their participation in the 'Coca Cola - Talent From Trash' campaign.

Campaign Aim - 'To use the power and wide appeal of football to motivate and encourage football fans and their families to recycle household waste, in order to win cash for their clubs youth development'.

The campaign promises to improve the environment and to potentially earn the club a total of £18,000 for youth development.

Anyone who makes a pledge to recycle more has the chance to win £5,000 for themselves along with an extra £10,000 for Burnley FC!!!

Simply log onto www.talent-from-trash.com and make a pledge EVERYDAY to recycle more. Try and make it a part of your daily routine.

If over 1,000 pledges are made in a week Burnley FC will receive £1000 for youth development.

Then simply make sure that you increase the levels of recycling either at home through kerb-side pickups or by taking your recyclables to the Burnley Tesco recycling centre.

Please remember to encourage family and friends to make a pledge too. This is a fantastic opportunity for us all to make Burnley a greener place.

A few recycling facts and stats:

·Typically, over 50% of your household bin can be recycled and common items of household rubbish can be transformed into a wide range of high quality new products.For example, it takes just 25 two-litre drink bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket (Recycle Now)

·Recycling 1 plastic bottle saves enough energy to light a 60W light bulb for 6 hours (Recycle Now)

·Recycling 1 can saves enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours (Recycle Now) .

·Recycling 1 glass bottle will power a computer for 20 minutes (Recycle Now)

·On average, every household uses 500 plastic bottles each year, of which just 130 are recycled! 2,700 million (108,000 tonnes) plastic bottles were recycled in 2006 (Recoup)

·Recycling an aluminium can uses 5% of the energy it takes to make it from scratch (Alupro)

·In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall (Recycle Now)

·On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks (Recycle Now)

·We produce and use 20 times more plastic than we did 50 years ago (Wastewatch)

·About one fifth of the contents of household dustbins consist of paper and card, of which nearly half is newspapers and magazines. This is equivalent to over 4kg of waste paper and card per household in the UK each week (Recycle Now)

·Recycling 1 tonne of plastic bottles save 1.5 tonne of carbon (Recoup)

·Every year, the average person in the UK throws away 290 plastic bags (Wastewatch)

·On average, every family consumes 330 glass bottles and jars a year (Wastewatch)

·In a year the average household dustbin contains enough unreleased energy for 500 baths! (Recycle Now)