A company looking to build a major recycling plant in Dorset is offering £400,000 to improve transport links if permission is granted. SITA UK wants to build the plant at Binnegar Quarry to recycle around 122,000t of waste a year. However, eight parish councils in the area have objected to the application, citing fears that the centre could clog local roads with HGVs. Now the company is talking to Dorset and Purbeck District Council about setting aside £400,000 to improve transport links in the area. Michael Cox, SITA UK’s area manager, said: ‘We accept that the traffic issue continues to be a concern, particularly for parish councils. That’s why we are working closely with Purbeck and Dorset and their agreed traffic strategies. ‘This includes offering to provide around £400,000 to help improve transport links in the area.’ SITA UK says the ‘environmental park’ will reduce the ‘lorry miles’ and ‘carbon footprint’ of transporting waste from west and central Dorset to the handling plant at Hurn near Bournemouth by some 600 miles a day. It also points out that Dorset will also spend less on landfill taxes due to increased recycling if the plant gets the go ahead.