Cabinet members are set to approve £459,000 of funding for the works at a meeting today (17 September 2025) to cover the replacement of the drainage system and surrounding concrete hard standing.
The site’s recycling and waste transfer station will be unavailable for around 11 weeks. However, the household recycling centre at Full Moon will remain open to the public throughout the repair period.
Funds to be sourced from EPR payments
While the Full Moon’s household recycling centre will be unaffected by the works, the council will divert its residual waste to Cardiff. Recycling collected at the kerbside will be taken to an interim site.
Funding for the emergency works is expected to be sourced from the government’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme.
According to a Defra list of anticipated values, Caerphilly Council is expected to receive almost £5.4 million from EPR in November this year.
Caerphilly Council’s new waste depot
£2 million of this fund has already been earmarked for the purchase of a new depot in Ystrad Mynach’s Duffryn Business Park.
The proposed development, which remains subject to planning permission, is intended to replace the council’s current base at Tir-y-Berth.
Once operational, the site will allow dry kerbside recycling to be processed locally rather than being sent to material reclamation facilities (MRFs) across the UK.
Councillor Chris Morgan, Cabinet Member for waste and recycling, commented on the new site: “This major scheme will transform the way we deliver our recycling service and, subject to planning approval, work will soon commence on creating the new facility at the site.
“We will, of course, keep residents and the local business community fully engaged and updated throughout this work.”
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