Cambridgeshire recycling waste will still be taken 400miles away to Northern Ireland for sorting, with no date now being offered for when a UK mainland facility could open. Earlier this year Re-Gen was awarded a contract to take the recycling collected by Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council through the shared waste service.

Under the contract the waste is taken to a materials recycling facility (MRF) in Newry. A press release issued in February said Re-Gen had told the councils that “within the first half of this year it will take over a MRF on the UK mainland”, which the release said would “negate the need to transport the recycling to Northern Ireland”.

In July Councillor Rosy Moore, cabinet member for climate action and environment at the city council,

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