A new Recycling Heroes competition offers the best recycler a chance to win £250 in LoveToShop vouchers.

Residents have to capture their recycling skills in a photo or video, doing something fun and exciting in the name of recycling, or showing off how much they recycle compared to what they throw away in the general waste.

Why not do your recycling dressed up as a recycling superhero or create amazing trick shots to get those bottles into your recycling bin.

The aim is to increase the number of people who recycle within Oxford and bring communities together to care for the environment.

Oxford currently sends none of its household waste to landfill, instead using energy recovery to turn Oxford’s household waste into energy to power homes.

Oxford Direct Services and the city council would like more people to recycle and help Oxford become an even more sustainable city.

Although Oxfordshire currently has one of the highest recycling rates in the country, the city wants to exceed targets and inspire other cities to follow this lead.

Residents can use the hashtag #RecyclingHeroes to share their videos and images on social media.

Councillor Lubna Arshad, Cabinet Member for Parks and Waste Reduction, said: “We are very proud of what our residents contribute to making Oxford a great city to live and work in. The Recycling Heroes competition celebrates this, and we hope it encourages everyone in Oxford to do much more recycling so that we live in a cleaner, greener city and show this great example to other cities.”

The competition begins on 28 September and closes on 30 November. Residents can use these social media links to enter: @Recycle4Oxford on Twitter, Facebook and @Recycle4Oxford on Instagram. Full information and the terms and conditions on the council's recycling page.