PUPILS in Radcliffe are turning junk into the sweet sound of music.

Children from St Mary's RC Primary School have signed up for the Recycling Rewards for Schools scheme to turn cans into computers, textiles into trumpets, paper into printers and glass into guitars.

And children from the Belgrave Street school have already been busy collecting items to be recycled.

The scheme, launched by Bury Council, is offering thousands of pounds worth of prizes for primary schools and pupils to win.

And there is no skill or competition involved. All they have to do is get their family, friends and neighbours to pledge that they will start recycling their rubbish.

All primary schools signing up for the Defra-funded initiative, which runs until the end of March, will share in a points reward scheme based on the amount of recyclable rubbish collected for recycling in Bury every month.

The number of points awarded will relate to the number of pledges gathered by the schools. The points accrued can then be exchanged for a wide range of equipment, including TVs, projectors, cameras, computers and musical instruments.

As well as rewards for the school, there are great incentives for the children to take part.

Individual pupils will be given funky green finger bands on achieving three signed pledges and then a trendy wrist band and vouchers to Camelot theme park and Aquarium of the Lakes, once they reach six pledges.

In addition, for the pupil who collects the most pledges in each school, there's a reward of a great new mini MP3 player.