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Beaufort's Dyke, showing the position of the munitions dump, from an Admiralty chart published in 1947. Depth in fathoms. Because of its depth and its proximity to the Cairnryan military port, Beaufort's Dyke became the United Kingdom's largest offshore dump site for surplus conventional and chemical munitions after the Second World War: it had been used for the purpose since the early 20th ...
Greengairs power station opened in 1996, and is powered by methane produced by biodegrading materials from a large landfill site developed since 1990 in former open cast workings situated to the south of the village. [10] Greengairs is the largest landfill site in Scotland, handling waste from Glasgow and Edinburgh. [11]
Allerton waste recovery park, North Yorkshire [1] Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility; Ardley ERF; Baldovie WtE (Dundee) Beddington Energy Recovery Facility (Sutton, London) Bolton WtE; Chineham EfW; Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre; Crossness STW Sludge Powered Generator (Belvedere, London) CSWDC (Coventry) Devonport Dockyard Incinerator ...
Online sites record the locations of landfills in the United Kingdom: For landfills in Scotland see the Waste infrastructure maps section of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency website. Data for landfills in Northern Ireland appear as lists in the Public Registers section of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency website.
Greengairs Landfill in 2012. The Greengairs Landfill is a landfill site in Scotland that receives non-hazardous household, commercial and industrial waste from the North Lanarkshire area. Greengairs was opened in 1990 and features landfill gas collection systems which are used to generate electricity for export into the National Grid.
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Avondale Environmental, better known as Avondale Landfill, is a major Scottish landfill located in Polmont, off junction 4 of the M9 motorway. [1] Avondale takes large volumes of waste from the Forth Valley and some from West Lothian .
Although Site 4 was sold and returned to agricultural use, large parts of the other three sites were retained for ammunition storage by the War Department and later the Ministry of Defence. Beginning in the 1930s, up to 2,500 acres (10 km 2) of Site 2, at Mossband, became the Central Ammunition Depot, CAD Longtown. After World War II it became ...