{"id":155300,"date":"2025-06-03T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155300\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:04:10","slug":"why-this-greater-manchester-tip-is-closing-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155300\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Greater Manchester tip is closing for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will mean only two tips are left open in Manchester<\/p>\n<p>17:26, 03 Jun 2025Updated 17:31, 03 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Screenshot-2025-06-03-140944.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Reliance Street tip in Newton Heath(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Greater Manchester tip will be closed for a year from the end of this month so \u2018vital improvements\u2019 can be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Bosses at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have announced the Reliance Street household waste and recycling centre will close on June 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It\u2019s for a programme of upgrades which could take up to a year, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Work includes creating more parking bays to improve traffic flow, making more space for containers so they can recycle more types of items, and installing a donation container for items too good to throw away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A new \u2018Renew shop\u2019 will also be added to the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/newton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Newton<\/a> Heath tip, which will \u2018no longer need to close for short periods throughout the day when full containers are moved and changed\u2019 after the revamp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Reliance-St-Pic.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>(Image: Copyright Unknown)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThese improvement works at our Reliance Street site are essential and it\u2019s great that work will be getting underway soon,\u201d said Coun Tom Ross, the GMCA\u2019s lead on waste. \u201cAdding a donation container and a Renew Shop are a particular benefit to the residents that use Reliance Street, with the money raised going to many great causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The site is managed by firm Suez, and its regional manager Andrew Bewicke said residents will feel the benefit of the new facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He explained: \u201cLocal residents will see a much more modern recycling centre when these improvement works are complete. These are exciting changes which will allow us to collect more types of items for recycling and provide a better customer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The closure means Manchester will only have two tips open for much of the next 12 months, but residents from the city are able to use recycling centres in other boroughs free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The nearest alternative household waste and recycling centres to Reliance Street are Ash Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/droylsden\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Droylsden<\/a> (M43 6QU), two-and-a-half miles away; Arkwright Street in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/oldham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Oldham<\/a> (OL9 9LZ), four miles away; and Spring Vale in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/middleton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Middleton<\/a> (M24 2HQ), 4.3 miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will mean only two tips are left open in Manchester 17:26, 03 Jun 2025Updated 17:31, 03 Jun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11564,12,11637,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-greater-manchester-combined-authority","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newton-heath","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620521970906609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}