Construction work has started on a new £1.5 million Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) at Studd Hill in Herne Bay, Kent.
The new centre, designed and project managed by Capita Symonds on behalf of Kent County Council, will be larger than the existing Herne Bay facility and when completed, is expected to handle up to 15,000 tonnes of the area’s recyclables and waste materials per year.
Designed to offer easier access to bulk material containers and ensure that users are kept separate from operational activities and vehicles, the split-level site will double the amount of parking bays for bulk recycling, in the hope of reducing queues.
Bryan Sweetland, Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Waste for Kent County Council said: "The major redevelopment of our Household Waste Recycling Centre at Herne Bay is part of an on-going £18 million capital investment programme in Kent's waste infrastructure. This is a busy site and the aim is to make the facility more customer friendly, reduce traffic queues and increase recycling. The existing facility is already recycling 71 per cent of input and we expect this to increase still further when the new facility opens in early 2013."
The existing HWRC site closed earlier this month and will not open again until construction is completed in early 2013. Alternative centres are available at Vauxhall Road in Canterbury and Manston Road in Margate.
Further details can be found on Kent County Council’s website.
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