Glasgow Housing Association environmental staff have raised thousands of pounds for charity by recycling scrap metal.
Neighbourhood wardens across the city have been picking up discarded items such as cookers, fridges and washing machines dumped in the street or left in back courts and recycling them.
And as well as keeping neighbourhoods clean and tidy, the teams have raised £5000 for The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice - GHA's charity of the year for 2013-14.
Neighbourhood wardens in Knightswood raised £2000, while the city-wide environmental teams based at the Lyoncross Depot in Pollok raised more than £2500.
Around 25 tons of discarded items were recycled - material which would otherwise have ended up in landfill.
Staff across Wheatley Group - GHA's parent company - also organised a range of quiz nights, raffles and other fundraising events for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, raising almost £12,000 throughout the year.
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