Recycling Centre’s ‘Salvage Shed’ set to return

It has been revealed that the Salvage Shed that proved popular at Welshpool’s Potters Recycling Centre is set to make a comeback.

At this week's Full Town Council meeting, a letter from Cllr David France, who was unable to attend, stated that it was returning and he had been speaking with Circular Economy Wales who were seeking backing from the local authority.

“Potters have substantial amounts of reusable materials that people leave at the recycling centre which are now going into waste,” wrote Cllr France.

“There used to be a Salvage Shed at Welshpool and Circular Economy Wales have agreed with Potters to restart the Salvage Shed on April 13. Initially this will be three days a week to re-establish their presence but with the intention to cover all five days as soon as conditions allow.”

Councillors voted by a majority (there were two abstentions) to support the project.

The chance to pick up items that had been dropped at the site as rubbish was a popular feature of the centre, but it stopped when the controversial booking system was introduced last year.

Who are Circular Economy Wales (CEW)?

As Zero Waste experts in the field for 20 years, CEW enables the build of new circular structures in communities in Wales and is a conduit for best practice, leading a global network, Mawarid Alliance, of community focused circular economy practitioners.

Through this outward looking collaboration, they are internationally linked but firmly rooted in Wales’s communities rolling out Community Fridge, Precious Plastic, Regenerative Agriculture and Wales’s Complementary Currency, the Celyn; to ensure the circularity of the wealth that new structures create.