People using Oxfordshire's eight waste recyling centres are being asked what would encourage them to recycle more.

Oxfordshire County Council has commissioned its first user survey to help improve services. Market researchers from Didcot are visiting eight sites from Saturday - Alkerton near Banbury, Ardley Fields near Bicester, Dean Pit near Chadlington, Dix Pit near Stanton Harcourt, Drayton near Abingdon, Oakley Wood near Wallingford, Redbridge in Oxford and Stanford in the Vale.

Patrick Coulter, the council's head of waste management, said: "We want to do everything we can to enable Oxfordshire to meet Government targets.

"Our aim is to recycle 50 per cent of the rubbish taken to the waste recycling centres by the end of next year.

"We are recycling more all the time but no-one knows better than our users how we could do better as they bring the recycling or rubbish into the site."