Dead baby found at rubbish dump Bell Waste Control site in Scunthorpe, where the body of a baby was found in waste being sorted at the recycling plant. Photograph: Alistair Keely/PA A teenager has contacted police to say she is the mother of a baby boy found dead in waste being sorted at a recycling plant. Officers received a telephone call on Wednesday from a girl in a distressed state who said she was the mother of the baby found at Bell Waste Control in Scunthorpe. The teenager was taken to hospital, where she has been admitted for postnatal care, a spokeswoman for Humberside police said. "Whilst it is not yet clear exactly what the circumstances of this incident are, it is believed that the baby was newborn," the spokeswoman said. The teenage girl is now receiving the necessary care she requires, and further inquiries into the circumstances of what happened will be made in due course, including a postmortem examination of the baby, which is due to take place later today. The body was discovered by a member of staff as he sorted cardboard, wood, paper, metal and other objects for recycling. He originally mistook it for a doll or cuddly toy. The recycling plant manager, Steve Kent, said the baby could have been discarded in a load of commercial waste, possibly from a factory or office. He told ITV News a colleague reported that a baby's body had been located on the picking station. They immediately stopped the machines and called the police. "He was quite distressed and he immediately dropped it [the baby]," he said. We stopped the plant and went through the process with the police. He originally thought it was a doll or a cuddly toy or something like that. He's just picked it up and it was revealed what it was.