A lucky Hart resident received a fleece jacket made from recycled plastic bottles in the 'Buy Recycled' campaign run by Hart District Council.

Mrs Needes from Hall Farm Crescent in Yateley signed a pledge card in the Waitrose store to 'Buy Recycled' products and in doing so entered Hart Council's competition to win the Berghaus recycled fleece jacket.

Mrs Needes said, "I always try and buy recycled products when I go shopping and take my own shopping bags to reuse. My new fleece is beautifully soft and warm. It's hard to imagine that this jacket was originally 25 plastic bottles. It just goes to show what good use can be made from recycled materials these days."

Not only do ‘Buy Recycled’ products save natural resources they can also save help energy and water used in the manufacture of products made from raw materials. Recycled paper, for example, saves half to two thirds of the energy used to make new paper.

Photo: Mrs Needes receiving her recycled fleece jacket from General Waste, the mascot leading the War on Waste in Hampshire with her daughters Charlotte on the left and Rebecca on the right.

9 December 1999