Books, CDs and tapes recycled.

CHILDREN mad on recycling have teamed up with Sainbury's and Oxfam to extend the scheme to books, tapes, CDs and DVDs.

Rokeby infant and junior schools in Rugby, working under the banner of the Rokeby Schools Joint Recycling Initiative, have installed another recycling bank at the Sainsbury's store in Dunchurch Road.

Items dropped off will be re-sold in local Oxfam charity shops.

Bill Lewis, recycling organiser for the initiative, said: "We are always looking for ways to expand the recycling centre and are glad of the opportunity to help Oxfam in its charitable work."

He said magazines, including Reader's Digest, should not be put in the book bank, but in the paper bank at the same site.

Yellow Pages should be kept for a special collection later this year.

Sainsbury's manager David Wilson said: "The recycling centre is an essential facility for our customers.

"We are grateful to Rokeby Schools Recycling for operating the recycling centre so successfully."

Rokeby Schools Joint Recycling Initiative set up recycling facilities at Sainsbury's in 1990 and has managed them.

Materials collected there include newspapers, magazines, textile, shoes, aluminium and steel cans and aluminium foil. Glass bottles are collected on behalf of Rugby Borough Council. Nearly 4,000 tonnes of materials have been collected for recycling over the twelve years of operation, generating an income of almost pounds 74,000.

This has been shared between Rokeby Infant School and Rokeby Junior School, both in Anderson Avenue, and in nearly pounds 16,000 donated to local charities and good causes.