Gloucester City Council is calling for primary school children to design an anti-litter poster.

The council is inviting children aged between 5 and 11 to come up with designs to remind people to put litter in a bin or take it home, as part of Keep Britain Tidy's Love Parks Week.

Keep Britain Tidy said: "Today's young people are the key to eliminating litter and ending waste for now and for future generations."

Two winners will each receive a prize and have their posters displayed in parks and other places this summer.

Children should draw or paint their design on an A4 piece of paper (portrait/ tall way up).

They need to use one of the council's key messages in their design:

• Don't drop litter, use a bin

• Take your litter home to recycle

• If the bin is full, take your litter home

• Leave nothing but footprints

Download and print a copy of the entry form and send it with the poster design to environment@gloucester.gov.uk.

Entries must be received by 5pm on Friday, July 12. All entrants must attend school in Gloucester city.

Five reasons not to litter:

1. It makes the place you live look uncared for. We all want to live somewhere nice and enjoy our parks and open spaces without having to look at litter.

2. People and animals can cut themselves from certain types of litter, such as cans and glass.

3. Litter endangers wildlife; animals may eat something that gets trapped in their stomach or is toxic to them, and small animals get stuck and entangled in litter.

4. Litter does not clean itself away and cleaning up after people who drop litter costs millions of pounds each year. More than two million pieces of litter are dropped in the UK every day!

5. It's illegal! You can be fined for dropping litter.