A waste management company has bought the yard of a troubled recycling firm after the former tenants collapsed into administration.
Go Greener has acquired the Blackpole Recycling site in Blackpole, Worcester, and plans to reopen it as a waste transfer station and skip hire business.
The family skip hire specialists, based in Leigh Sinton, which has been running since 1984, bought the site formerly used by Blackpole Recycling last week.
The site will have to be cleared before it reopens, although the yard remains sealed off after action by the Environment Agency. However, the Go Greener logo has already been installed at the site in anticipation of the reopening at a date yet to be disclosed.
A company spokesman for Go Greener said: “It will become fully operational in due course as a waste transfer station and skip hire business. In the near future, the site will have to be cleared.”
The site was formerly operated by Blackpole Recycling Limited, which went into administration on March 5.
Access to the site, located at Blackpole Trading Estate West, remains restricted, with concrete barriers and locked gates installed by the Environment Agency.
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The EA issued Blackpole Recycling with a suspension notice on February 17 after inspectors found that the company had exceeded safe storage limits for wood and plasterboard and failed to maintain proper fire breaks.
Further inspections on February 23 and 25 revealed that more waste had been brought onto the site, creating a pile around six metres high, both inside and outside of the main shed.
Several skips were also reported stolen from the premises on February 25.
The Environment Agency successfully obtained a Restriction Order from the court, barring any further waste from being brought onto the site.
Jonathan Dew, who was the previous owner of the site, sold it to Go Greener.
Mr Dew said: “I wish the new owners every success.”
Mr Dew sold the business in September 2024 to Blackpole Recycling but retained ownership of the site until he decided to sell it to Go Greener.