planning permission in February<\/a>, with slightly more than \u00a36.25m committed for the facility\u2019s delivery.\n<\/p>\n\n The split-level building will be used to store a range of materials, including green waste, wood, metal and cardboard on its upper level, with 18 household recycling skips.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, the lower areas will be used for recycling containers, such as bottles, clothes and books, with both levels to have rubble and plate glass recycling skips.\n<\/p>\n
\n Council papers say the new facility will eliminate issues at the Portman\u2019s Walk site, including queuing traffic, will improve recycling and future-proof the service for more than 20 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n The project is expected to increase the number of slots available on the booking system to about 106,000, up from the current 85,000.\n<\/p>\n
\n The two district councils have said their contributions reflect the benefits the facility would bring to residents across the district borders, who live close to Ipswich.\n<\/p>\n
\n Once the site is purchased, by May 2026, work is expected to begin within six months, with delivery to take a further 12 to 18 months.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, the recycling centre at Portman Walk will stay operational until the new site is opened.\n<\/p>\n
\n Future options for developing the existing workshops to provide a reuse workshop and storage are under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mid Suffolk and Babergh cabinet members agreed on Tuesday to contribute a combined \u00a3223,000 to build a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-128430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}