A London waste company is offering an alternative gift for a friend (or enemy)– the chance to get elbow deep in the capital’s rubbish.

London Junk has launched the world’s first ever ‘Waste Collection Experience Day Gift Package’ just in time for Christmas.

The lucky recipient will collect rubbish from locations all over London, sort it and unload it at a recycling centre. 

The company expects the £300 gift to be popular with pampered execs eager to get their hands dirty for the first time in their lives.

People who use their gift will even be allowed to take home a souvenir of the day.

Recipients must arrive at the company’s north London base at 6am to be issued with a uniform and attend a brief training session on how to safely load rubbish.

Following this, they will join one of London Junk’s two man crews on board a refuse collection truck and drive to various collection points where they will roll up their sleeves and load rubbish.

A spokesman for London Junk said: “There are a lot of very successful people in London who are bored with luxury and want to experience another side to life.

“We are offering to show them the real London, the back streets and the alleyways, the refuse dumps and the recycling centres.

“You’d be amazed at some of the stuff we find. We’ve had valuable antiques, first edition Dickens novels, all kinds of things."

Check out the gift at: http://www.london-junk.co.uk/waste-collection-experience-day-gift-package/