Times (UK): A £640 million private finance initiative intended to push Manchester’s recycling rate to 50 percent was signed yesterday in one of the biggest deals of its kind. The deal, to create a state-of-the-art recycling centre to help increase the city’s recycling rate from 30 per cent to 50 per cent by 2015 and should see significant reductions in the quantity of rubbish sent to be buried in landfill sites. An estimated 5,000 jobs will be created during the construction stage and a …