The winner will be visited by a recycling officer

Lewisham Council is launched its Green Box Lottery on Friday.

Anyone who orders a bin and registers are entered into a draw that takes place every month for six months.

Green campaigner Donnachadh McCarthy said the lottery was a great way of raising awareness but needed to be done.

Mr McCarthy said: "This is really good for recycling and raising people's awareness of the need for it.

Winner checked

"But the next step is to focus on the production of rubbish.

"If we cut the amount of waste we produced by looking at how goods are packaged, then boroughs like Lewisham wouldn't have to spend so much money and energy on recycling."

Lewisham Council says each household in the borough produces about a tonne of rubbish each year.

The council aims to recycle 55% of this.

A recycling officer will visit the person who is picked in the lottery to check they do recycle.

Each Lewisham resident will receive a recycling "goody bag" explaining how collections are being increased to once a week from once a fortnight and that plastic bottles are also being recycled.