City tip to close for year-long upgrade
The tip will have more parking bays and more containers for recyclable material
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A tip will be closed for a year so "vital improvements" can be made.
Reliance Street household waste and recycling centre in Manchester will close on 29 June.
Extra parking bays will be put in, more recycling containers will be added, and there will be a place for items that can be re-used rather than thrown away, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority said.
The closure means Manchester will only have two tips open for much of the next 12 months, but residents will be able to use recycling centres in other boroughs free of charge.
The Newton Heath tip will "no longer need to close for short periods throughout the day when full containers are moved and changed", the authority added.
The changes "will allow us to collect more types of items for recycling and provide a better customer experience," said Andrew Bewicke from site management firm Suez.
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