ENVIRONMENTALLY-switched on children across west Somerset are charging themselves up to promote a battery recycling scheme in schools in the area with the help of a £2,000 grant.

The scheme could be adopted in 17 schools if organisers give the project the go ahead.

Details of the scheme are set to be thrashed out with the help of Somerset Waste Action Partnership and West Somerset District Council.

For more details on this story see Friday's West Somerset edition of the Somerset County Gazette.