HIGH WYCOMBE is home to the country’s best recycling centre.

With a 100 per cent customer satisfaction rate, High Wycombe’s Household Recycling Centre (HRC) won first place as Civic Amenity Site of the Year in the Let’s Recycle awards.

Buckinghamshire Council said the perfect customer satisfaction rate is a result of the site’s tidiness and appearance, signage, and overall layout – alongside the helpfulness of its staff.

Councillor Gareth Williams, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Environment said: “We’re absolutely delighted that the first-class service we offer at High Wycombe HRC has been recognised in this way.

"Key to us is making the site easy to use and for us to maximise the amount of waste that we can divert to be re-used.

"We of course reflect these high standards across all ten of our HRCs and I’m extremely pleased to see the hard work that goes into managing these sites is reflected in the extremely positive feedback from customers.

"These are important facilities for our residents, and we do our best to maintain the highest possible standards at each location.”

South Bucks Hospice also runs what has been described as an ‘excellent on-site reuse shop.’

Last year the site diverted 114 tonnes of waste to this reuse shop - a 20 per cent increase from that of last year.

Chief Executive Officer at South Bucks Hospice, Jackie Ward, said that: “We are very proud to be part of this success story. Our shop at the High Wycombe Household Recycling Centre is extremely important to us, providing vital funds for our patients.

"We are also delighted to see from the results of a customer survey, published in the awards submission, that the recent changes to our shop layout seem to have gone down so well with the public.”

The site is managed by contractor FFC environment.

Steve Longton, Operations Director, added: “We are very proud to be part of this success story. Our shop at the High Wycombe Household Recycling Centre is extremely important to us, providing vital funds for our patients.

"We are also delighted to see from the results of a customer survey, published in the awards submission, that the recent changes to our shop layout seem to have gone down so well with the public.”

All residents can visit High Wycombe HRC, as they can do any Buckinghamshire Council HRC’s, to dispose of and recycle household waste.