In July 2007, Worcestershire County Council approved a planning application from Severn Waste Services for a new Commingled Materials Reclamation Facility (CMRF) to be built at the Area 7 Business Park at Norton, approximately three miles south east of Worcester.
The new CMRF, to be commissioned in 2009, will receive, sort and despatch all the clean recyclables collected from households across Worcestershire and Herefordshire. It will have a capacity to receive and sort 105,000 tonnes of recyclable material per year.
A Community Liaison Group has been set up to communicate information on progress of the development. Details can be found on this website.