Singer asks Cambridgeshire councils to stop sending waste

A singer has uploaded a song to YouTube that called for two councils to stop sending waste 400 miles away and recycle it closer to home.

Dry recycling from Cambridgeshire has been transported to Newry, Northern Ireland, since March by waste management firm Re-Gen, after it won a contract with the Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council in January.

Folk singer Colum Sands, from Northern Ireland, produced Time for Talking Rubbish, external, as a “song-letter” to the councils in which he asks if they would “store leaking rubbish all along the River Cam?”.

In the song, which has had more than 1,000 views, Mr Sands says “throwing rubbish somewhere else does not achieve the end”.