RUBBISH tips in County Durham have been given an environmentally-friendly facelift.
The new style of household waste recycling centres have been created with the help of a £1.7m grant from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The money is being used by Durham County Council to upgrade ten sites and create features such as recycling 'igloos' for glass, cans and paper, household waste recycling skips, elevated roadways and access gantries that allow people to drop waste into skips.
Six of the tips, Potterhouse in Durham, Horden, Tudhoe, Strangford Road near Seaham, Annfield Plain and Heighington have been completed with work due to finish in March on the remaining four.
The centres will be launched at the Heighington Household Waste Recycling Centre at Newton Aycliffe today.
The county council's cabinet member for waste, Councillor John Davies, said: "These major improvements to turn the sites into household waste recycling centres will make them more user-friendly and extend recycling opportunities."
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