Fair Oak school pupils have been helping the environment in Hampshire and Africa by planting trees donated by an aluminium recycling scheme.
More than 100 oak saplings were planted at a conservation site in Knowle Park after saplings were donated by the not-for-profit organisation the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation.
The organisation handed Eastleigh Council one oak sapling for every tonne of aluminium the council collected over an 18-month period.
In total some 218 trees were handed over, some going to local schools, nearly half sent to Gosney Copse in Knowle Park, and the remainder sent to the West African country Burkina Faso to help their conservation efforts.
Louise Bloom, Eastleigh councillor and Cabinet member for the environment, said: "This is a great achievement by everybody concerned - the borough and parish councils for organising the planting, the volunteers and the school for their hard work and the borough's residents for their excellent recycling efforts."
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