Cambridgeshire
More than 3,000 people have booked appointments at Suffolk’s recycling centres from Thursday within just two hours of the system going live.
Police were called to an incident at a Norfolk recycling tip after a man blocked the entrance with his van.
Suffolk’s recycling centres and rubbish tips will re-open from Thursday this week – but only for those who have booked an appointment first.
Queues of people flocked to one of Cambridgeshire’s nine recycling centres after they were reopened amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Eight of Norfolk’s recycling centres have re-opened today (Monday, May 11), but people are being urged only to use them if they cannot store rubbish at home.
Traffic management plans in place to deal with the huge numbers of people expected to visit household recycling centres.
Eight of Norfolk’s tips are set to reopen, but people still won’t be able to offload some types of waste there.
Plans to provide environmentally-friendlier homes have been outlined by a Suffolk council, as part of measures to address the climate emergency.
Officials have thanked all the frontline recycling and waste keyworkers for being “brilliant despite the incredibly challenging circumstances” throughout the coronavirus lockdown.