Recycling centres at Northfield Industrial Estate in Market Deeping and Station Road in Gedney were planned as part if Lincolnshire county council's Deposit Draft Waste Local Plan.
As part of the waste plan, Lincolnshire has been consulting with residents over the planned sites. Following the consultation closure last month it emerged that the council had received over 1,000 comments from local residents regarding the site.
Most of the comments sited pollution fears and traffic congestion as the reasons for being against the new centres.
Lincolnshire council is now looking at alternative possibilities for household recycling centres in the area.
Consultations
There has also been suggestions that the council should open a single, larger site – as apposed to two small sites – at nearby Boston. Lincolnshire will be running further consultations in June and July on revised plans.
Councillor Lewis Strange, executive member for waste services, said that with the amount of waste being produced on the increase, there is a growing need to provide facilities to ensure it is properly dealt with.
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Lincolnshire county council achieved a recycling rate of 21% for 2003/04 and has a target to recycle 30% of its waste by 2005/06.
The council is also aiming to send no more than 131,376 tonnes of waste to landfill by 2010 under landfill allowance targets, which are putting more pressure on unitary councils to recycle more waste.
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