A NOT-for-profit company in Ross which helps disadvantaged people is putting the focus on recycling.

Enviroability, which integrates people with learning disabilities into the community by providing real work opportunities, is running a competition throughout Herefordshire for schools to collect aluminium foil which can be recycled.

Three Counties Ballooning will donate a hot air balloon flight as a prize and it is hoped to fly a teacher and seven pupils from the winning school.

Herefordshire Council has sent out a brochure, sponsored by Print Plus of Hereford, and an information pack to around 160 schools.

The winners of the competition will be those that collect the most foil per head and the final weigh-in will take place in the first week of June next year.

To make the contest even greener, after establishing the number of participants a decision will be made about the most environmentally friendly way to collect the foil.

Foil is being collected because it can be made into products for the transport, building and packaging industries and recycled again if possible.

The items pupils are encouraged to collect include clean aluminium foil trays, pie cases and general foil.

Enviroability has previously created a large mosaic outside the John Kyrle Library in Ross and painted pictures on a fence in the town to serve as a tourist attraction.