A VALE development centre's recycling scheme has received full backing from Eighties pop icon Toyah Willcox.

The former punk rocker is supporting an appeal to local residents for aluminium cans and foil by Scope's Skills Development Centre on Hayes Road, Sully.

The group hopes to collect one tonne of aluminium to enable them to create a garden for the enjoyment of people with disabilities.

TV presenter Toyah said: "If, as a society, we can demand so much, and consume so much, we are also capable of recycling our rubbish."

The Scope project is one of 17 appeals in the South West launched under the Make Things Happen campaign banner, sponsored by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) and supported by Toyah.

Not only will the Sully group benefit from the increased value of the aluminium cans and foil, they will be given £500 worth of environment vouchers to recreate the garden, once the aluminium has been collected.

Toyah said: "Recycling aluminium saves 95 percent of the energy used to make it in the first place. And because it can be recycled time after time without losing its quality, the environment really wins.

"So I appeal to children and adults to start collecting now."

For full details visit www.alupro.org.uk or phone 0845 7227722.

This is the latest in several events for the centre. Recently, rugby star Neil Jenkins opened 'The Sully Karten CTEC Centre', a technology centre for disabled people.