Duffy joined first team stars Michael Miller, Stefan McCluskey, Jon Scullion and Conor Pepper to support Greenock Morton Community Trust’s (GMCT) dedicated centre for re-using perfectly good playing attire and boots.

It is part of the £100k ‘Greener Morton’ initiative launched by the club’s charitable arm.

The scheme aims to reduce the Ton’s carbon footprint and support underprivileged youngsters across Inverclyde.

Football fans can donate kit and boots that are oversized, too small or no longer needed which can in turn be used by others in the community.

GMCT chiefs hope it will help those less fortunate — and cut down drastically on the amount of gear being sent to landfill.

Duffy — who aptly cut laces instead of the traditional ribbon to officially open the new Cappielow facility — told the Tele: “Anything that helps the community is a very worthwhile cause and to recycle is something that’s very popular now and we are all much more aware of it than four or five years ago. I don’t think too many clubs have gone down this route.

“I think it’s a really good idea and it’s common sense to do it at a football club — I’m sure it will be very popular.

“I’ll be bringing a bag down myself — I’ve been with many clubs — and I’ll be encouraging the players to donate as well.

“When you move on from clubs you don’t use stuff any more and instead of it lying up a loft others can get better use from it.” The facility is the first of a number of Greener Morton initiatives to get off the ground thanks to Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund.

Stuart Brown, the club’s kit and boot recycling officer, was also at the launch along with club mascot Cappie the Cat and Greener Morton manager Karen Welsh.

He said: “This is a great initiative that helps to provide kit to the young people in our community as well as reducing the impact of good quality kit ending up in landfill sites.” Trust bosses describe the facility as a sports kit version of the foodbank.

It will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-4pm for people wanting to donate and pick up new kit or boots.

“There are also plans to hold collections on matchdays at the old ticket collection point at the main gate. Karen Welsh, Greener Morton project manager, said: “As we know when Morton FC got behind the foodbank collections we managed to raise the profile and we hope to do the same with our recycling room. This money was awarded to the community trust by the Scottish Government via the Climate Challenge Fund [CCF] which is managed by Keep Scotland Beautiful.

“There are many fantastic projects all over Scotland and we recently heard about some of them at the CCF Gathering 2015 in Glasgow.

“The minister for environment, climate change and land reform, Aileen McLeod MSP, gave an inspirational speech at the event saying ‘it’s all about acting now’.

“So let’s all make small changes, recycle our kit/boots and become greener together for our children and grandchildren.

“Then their generations will start seeing the benefits of the changes that we can make today.” l Donations can be made at any time during the day via the recycling bin located outside the GMCT office at Cappielow. For more information about the scheme email kit@mortoncommunity.net Details are also available at facebook.com/MortonCommunity or on Twitter @mortoncommunity