Legendary former Spurs captain Ledley King is kicking street litter into touch in a campaign to promote recycling bins.

The bins for plastic bottles and cans have started popping up along Tottenham High Road, and King is helping tackle the litter problem rather than ‘kick the can down the road’, as it were.

Finding recycling bins while out and about can be difficult with the national ‘Deposit Return’ scheme delayed until 2027, environment campaigners say.

So the Natural Source Waters Association has given the campaigners £12,500 to put up 18 recycling bins in Tottenham.

“Bottles and cans are a valuable commodity,” the association’s Anthony Walker points out. “We want these recycled.

“Producers are making it easy to recycle the right things in the right places, so the material can be used again while also reducing street litter.”

The campaign is backed by Spurs and Haringey Council to make sure the area around the stadium is kept spick and span.

The club has its own measures at White Hart Lane that include recycling bins, 100 per cent renewable electricity and even food sourced within 60 miles to reduce transport emissions.

Tottenham Hotspur executive director Donna-Maria Cullen said: “Our recycling has already reduced single-use plastic so that we send no waste to landfill sites.”

The campaigners, from the Hubbub environment charity, started their nationwide ‘#InTheLoop’ strategy in 2018 which has so far recycled 2.5 million cans and plastic and glass bottles. They now have 600 recycle bins up and down the country for ‘out-of-home’ recycling, the latest ones along Tottenham High Road.