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Commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council, the plant cost £142 million and will divert 155,000 tons of waste a year from going to landfill. It burns treated waste to generate electricity which is fed into the National Grid. [1] [2] [3] The plant uses combustion and XeroSorp flue gas treatment from Hitachi Zosen Inova ...
A plea for help has been issued by litter-picking groups along one of the busiest roads in and out of Scotland. Dozens of bags of rubbish are collected each week from lay-bys and verges along the ...
Kerbside collection encompasses many subtly different systems, which differ mostly on where in the process the recyclates are sorted and cleaned. The main categories are 1) mixed waste collection, 2) commingled recyclables, and 3) source separation. [5] A waste collection vehicle generally picks up the waste.
MV Gardyloo was a specially designed sewage dumping vessel that operated from Leith between 1978 and 1998. [1] [2] The ship's name is an 18th-century word derived from the French "gardez l’eau" ("mind the water"), used in Edinburgh to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. [3]
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Vegware is a manufacturer of plant-based and compostable catering disposables, founded by Joe Frankel in Edinburgh in 2006. [1] In 2020, the company was Scotland's fourth fastest growing private company in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, [2] with an annual sales rise over three years of 44.58%.
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill . Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclable materials that technically are not waste , as part of a municipal landfill diversion program.
The City of Edinburgh Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann) is the local government authority covering the City of Edinburgh council area. Almost half of the council area is the built-up area of Edinburgh , capital of Scotland .