Reuben Bolton of Bolton Brothers Ltd who run the Recycling Centre in Bramford will close the site on 11 March 2012.

They are looking at expanding other operations they manage so that they can accept items from the public. This allows staff to cover all activities on the site and reduces costs.  It has been successful in Beccles. 

The site has been used a lot less after the county closed it for several weeks before the Boltons operation started.  There have been fewer than 25 visitors a day for most of January when you might have noticed that it was snowy and freezing. 

The income from charges and material sales has not been covering  costs, over the months of the trial period.   In December 2011 Boltons  introduced a charge for green waste and wood waste in an attempt to eliminate the loss but without sucess.

The type of waste has also changed.  There is less recyclable waste of value, such as metals, textiles and cardboard.  This is again not helping.

Your local councillors will work together to try to find a solution but it will at best be very difficult