An Exeter-based waste management company is bigger this morning after acquiring part of a North Devon rival that went into administration.
Coastal Recycling has taken over the commercial work of South Molton Recycle.
Coastal's managing director, Steve Hadley, says it means less commercial waste will go to landfill - and jobs have been saved.
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