Get ready to recycle your bras!

You can already recycle most of your waste with Hertsmere's kerbside collections and local recycling banks but now, women can even recycle their bras!

Councillor Jean Heywood and Recycling Officer Gemma Godfrey using one of the new banks

New recycling banks specifically for bras have been installed across the borough and they are bright pink so you won't be able to miss them!

Some of the bras collected will be sent to women in poorer countries.  The rest will be recycled and the money donated to the Breast Cancer Campaign.  So start digging out your old bras from the depths of your underwear drawer and put them to good use.

Councillor Jean Heywood, Environment Portfolio Holder, said: "This is a fantastic project and it just shows that you can recycle just about everything!

"By recycling your bras not only will less waste be sent to landfill but women in poorer countries will benefit and you will be helping to fund research into breast cancer.

"So next time you pop out to the shops or the gym, or go to your local recycling centre, take your old bras with you and pop them in one of the pink banks, you really can't miss them!"

Bras should be placed in a bag before they are put in a bank.

Bra banks are located at:

Borehamwood

• Hertsmere Borough Council Civic Offices, Elstree Way, Borehamwood - in reception
• The Venue, Elstree Way, Borehamwood - in the women's changing rooms (one month trial) and in the car park

Bushey

• Bushey Grove Leisure Centre, Aldenham Road - in the women's changing rooms (one month trial) and in the car park
• Bushey Country Club, High Street - in the women's changing rooms
• Kemp Place car park

Potters Bar

• Potters Bar area office at the Wyllyotts Centre, Darkes Lane - in reception
• Furzefield Leisure Centre, Mutton Lane - in the women's changing rooms and in the car park

Radlett

• Aldenham Parish Council offices at the Radlett Centre, Aldenham Avenue - in reception
• Newberries car park, Radlett

Shenley

• Andrews Close, off Porters Park Drive