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Human remains discovered at a waste plant in Bristol may have got there after being thrown in with a recycling collection, police have said. Police have identified a man whose body parts were discovered at a waste plant in Bristol.
A police cordon remains in place at the depot in Avonmouth, where workers made the gruesome discovery of male body parts on Friday morning. Avon and Somerset police named the victim as Matthew Symonds, 34, of no fixed address in Swindon. His death is being treated as unexplained.
Specialist officers from Avon and Somerset police are focusing their inquiries on Swindon as it is believed the body parts may have come from a recycling collection in the Wiltshire town. The human remains may have got there after being thrown in with a recycling collection, police have said.
The senior investigating officer Gareth Bevan said: "Police enquiries so far suggest the body was transported with commercial recycling waste collected in Swindon and therefore the focus of the investigation will be in that area. Police were first called to the Biffa depot in Avonmouth at 11am on Friday after staff raised the alarm.
A postmortem examination is due to be carried out later, while officers follow several lines of inquiry to establish the circumstances surrounding the man's death.
Det Ch Insp Gareth Bevan said: "Police inquiries so far suggest the body was transported with commercial recycling waste collected in Swindon and therefore the focus of the investigation will be in that area going forward.
"The investigation is at an early stage and we are keeping an open mind about the circumstances leading to this man's death.""The investigation is at an early stage and we are keeping an open mind about the circumstances leading to this man's death."
Police said the remains were believed to be male, and it was too early to say how long ago the body parts had been severed. The victim has yet to be identified. Matthew Humphreys of Biffa said: "Biffa takes health and safety very seriously and is conducting its own internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident."
It comes a day after a human leg was found by workers at a Dublin recycling plant. That find is also still being investigated.
In 2012, the body of Garrett Elsey, a Canadian student, was found at a different waste depot in Avonmouth.
The 22-year-old, who had been out drinking while celebrating his first night in the UK, fell asleep in a wheelie bin before it was emptied hours later. An inquest heard Elsey had been crushed to death in the back of the bin lorry.