Shoppers can learn about recycling when they pick up bargains on Saturday.

Strood Market is hosting a stall promoting recycling and telling people how they can get involved.

Officers from Medway Council’s waste services team will be giving advice to anyone wanting to start home-composting or who is having difficulties with their compost, as well as general information about dry recycling.

Market browsers will also be able to watch a DVD and pick up leaflets about recycling and composting.

The event is part of the council’s Think Blue not Black campaign, which aims to encourage residents to send less rubbish to landfill by recycling more of their waste.

Everyday items like fizzy drinks bottles, baked bean cans, junk mail and newspapers can all be recycled through the council’s blue box and bag doorstep collection, rather than being put in the black sacks and sent to landfill.