Work has started on a new waste and recycling centre for Pembrokeshire. The Crane Cross Civic Amenity and Recycling Centre at Saundersfoot - a £2 million development - will provide a waste management facility for the collection and segregation of municipal waste serving the south-east of the county. The construction is expected to take seven months to complete. The facility is part of the South West Wales Materials Efficiency project, which is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government. "This facility is long overdue," said Clr. Huw George, cabinet member for environmental and regulatory services. "As a local authority, we face tough recycling targets in the future and this new facility will help us meet them - as well as provide local residents with a state-of-the-art waste and recycling centre." Sited off Devonshire Drive, the layout of the new development has been based on the award-winning civic amenity site at Waterloo, Pembroke Dock, with a design sympathetic to the agricultural environment of the area. The buildings will be covered in dark green corrugated cladding, with external lighting being sensitively sited and the whole development screened with tree planting and vegetation. It has been designed by Capita Property and Infrastructure Limited, while construction will be carried out by local contractor G. D. Harries.