MANGOTSFIELD’S Sort It recycling centre has closed for five weeks for “essential repairs and maintenance”.
The centre in Carsons Road shut on October 21 and will not reopen until November 25.
Damage to part of the building was visible to visitors dropping off waste before the closure, with one of the loading bays cordoned off.
South Gloucestershire Council is advising residents to “delay unnecessary trips” to recycling centres during the closure.
Its three other recycling centres at Little Stoke, Yate and Thornbury will be open from 8.30am to 4.30pm daily as usual.
But the council said in a statement: “They will be much busier, with queues likely at any time of the day.
“If you need to use a recycling centre, please sort your waste, remove any recycling from bags of mixed waste and make sure your vehicle is registered before you visit.”
Residents are being advised that the Little Stoke has a 1.8m height barrier and trailers are not allowed on the site.
It also cannot take some materials which can be brought to other centres, including asbestos, tyres, plasterboard, hardcore or rubble, paper, cans, glass and plastics.
None of the Sort It recycling centres can accept business waste.
The closure is the longest since the authority shut all of its recycling centres for seven weeks during the first covid lockdown in 2020. They reopened with restrictions which then lasted for several months.
A fire which damaged the Mangotsfield centre in May 2022, and is believed to have been caused by a lithium ion battery thrown away with household waste, only resulted in it being closed for two and a half days afterwards.
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