We visited the £32m Walsall 'super-tip' that hopes to revolutionise the garbage industry

When many think of recycling centres, they think of smelly and dirty eyesores filled with the nation's unwanted and discarded waste. 

However, the new Middlemore Lane, Aldridge, 'Waste Recycling Centre and Waste Transfer Station' hopes to be something a little different. 

Visiting the site with during an exclusive press 'walk and talk' event, we had the chance to view the upcoming recycling centre in its entirety and ask Walsall councillors the important questions that our residents wanted to know.

Outside

While being called a 'centre', I would instead describe it as a 'complex' - at 7.2 heters mammoth to cater to our recycling needs.

Between the mass of workers and heavy machines, you can see a multitude of frameworks and materials that will eventually be formed into a complex capable of containing and disposing of up to 40,000 tonnes of waste product per year. 

Three buildings, two recycling stations and shop, have already been partially erected - ginormous structures that drawf the entirety of both the Fryers Road and Merchants Way centres combined.

The entirety of the site is being developed to the tune of £32m, and looking at its stature, you can see where that money is going. 

Walking around the site with Walsall deputy leader, Councillor Adrian Andrew and Councillor Kerry Murphy, the portfolio holder for street pride, we had the chance to ask questions about the upcoming waste centre's recycling capabilities.

Councillor Murphy said: "When completed, this site will be able to take in around 40,000 tonnes of waste per year and will be able to cater to more people and our other sites.

"One of the problems that we have with Merchants Way or Fryers Road is that it gets so busy, you get a backlog of cars. But you won't have that here. 

"Because it's so huge, the traffic will be contained on the site instead of on the road."