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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]
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 ...
The Avondale Landfill incorporates landfill gas recovery facilities which are used to generate renewable electricity on site which is supplied into the national grid. A Materials Recovery Facility opened in February 2012, with the intention of diverting the majority of waste from landfill, but was closed in 2013.
Landfill site at Oatslie, Scotland, in 2009. Landfills in the United Kingdom were historically the most commonly used option for waste disposal. Up until the 1980s, policies of successive governments had endorsed the "dilute and disperse" approach. [1]
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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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 ...
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 ...