RESIDENTS in the Torbay Council local authority area are being reminded that from Monday, December 15, unfortunately they will no longer be able to use the recycling facility at the Brunel Road site in Newton Abbot.
They are kindly asked to use the Torbay household waste recycling centre at Tor Park road in Paignton.
Cabinet Member for Community and Environmental Services, Roger Croad says; "Devon County Council tax payers help to contribute towards the costs of running the recycling centre in Newton Abbot and in the present economic climate, we feel it's important to prioritise our own residents at the facility.
"We are facing extreme pressures on our budget and simply cannot afford to process waste from outside the county's local authority area without any financial contribution."
"Regrettably we must ask residents from Torbay to understand our position and to please take their household waste for recycling to their own facility in Paignton which they have paid to use through their own council tax rather than Newton Abbot.
“Security Staff will be applying this restriction and we would not want people to have wasted trips or the inconvenience of being turned away."
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