A decision will be made today on plans to extend the life of Copeland's popular waste recycling centre.

County council planners are being urged to agree to allow the Frizington facility to operate for another 17 years.

The facility accepts household items including clothes, textiles, books, CD's and DVD's, fridges and freezers, garden waste and wood and timber.

The items are placed into segregated containers then bulked up to be recycled or taken to landfill.

A number of years ago, there were suggestions at a county council local committee meeting about plans for a household waste recycling centre at Lillyhall.

But a county council spokesman confirmed this week that there are currently no plans for this to happen.

However, in a council report it says if an "alternative facility" became available the Frizington centre would cease operations.

The facility is on a former landfill site that closed in 1989. Temporary planning permission was first granted in 1990 and further permissions have been approved eight more times since then, with the latest being two years ago.

There is also a household waste recycling centre at Clay Flatts in Workington.

The county council's development control and regulation committee are meeting today to discuss the application.