Cambridgeshire residents can take old sofas to the county's nine recycling centres again.
New environmental rules mean old sofas and soft furnishings have to be incinerated instead of going into landfill
"Changes to the way we are allowed to safely dispose of these items meant we were given an extremely short timeframe to deal with waste that could no longer be put into landfill, which had to be stored separately from any other waste before being incinerated.
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