High Wycombe: Can people really fall in love with their local tip?

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What is it about a Buckinghamshire waste centre that earned it a 100% satisfaction rating?

Unusually for a household waste and recycling centre, the High Wycombe site has a hospice shop within its grounds.

"They come and go like hot cakes," Mr Pritchard says. "We need these types of sites all over the country." Brian Pearce is visiting the centre to drop off green waste and metal items and offer an old ammunition box to the hospice shop. But they are helped along, he says, by the various regulars - particularly tradespeople - who "are friendly and like to have a little chat".Is there a recipe for a "good" waste and recycling centre? Jilly Jordan, the council's deputy cabinet member for environment, thinks there is.Making a good one, she says, starts with placement.

 

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