Guernsey charity wanted for new recycling centre

A new facility will be opened in 2018 featuring a repair and reuse centre run by a local non-profit group or groups

Charities are being offered the chance to repair and sell items left at a new waste and recycling centre in Guernsey.

Currently people can collect items left at the Longue Hougue facility, but when it is redeveloped in 2018 that will no longer be an option.

The new facility will not have the space for public collections.

A charity or charities will instead collect the items, repair them where possible and sell them in their own outlets.

The Public Services Department said the initiative should help reduce waste and raise money for charity by giving unwanted items a new lease of life.

Public Services recycling officer Tina Norman-Ross said a number of local not-for-profit organisations had shown an interest in providing the service.

She said: "We want to encourage and increase reuse, and currently there are a lot of items which we cannot find a new home for because they are broken in some way.

"Ideally we would like to see more of these items repaired and given a new lease of life, and if that also benefits local causes that is a bonus."