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Powerful objections to proposed Lamington Quarry as Clyde overflows
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Innovative recycling initiative to produce green energy
From next year, Supermarket chain Sainsburys is to send all of its waste food to special plants where it will be converted to methane gas. This in turn will generate electricity to heat and light the chain’s eight hundred stores around the UK. Using the waste food in this way also reduces the need for landfill sites which otherwise are used to accommodate it.
The methane production will obviously need to be a highly controlled process as methane emissions threaten the fragile ozone layer.
Scotland’s legacy from the London Olympics could be 250,000 tons of polluted soil
It has emerged today that contractors working for the Olympic Development Authority have made an approach to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) for permission to dump a quarter of a million tons of toxic waste soil in central Scotland.
The soil, contaminated by oil and diesel, has been excavated from the site of the London Olympics and is now ready to roll 350 miles northwards to a site thought to be near Falkirk, should SEPA give the nod.
Amid outrage from environmentalists, Green MSP Robin Harper asked: ‘Should Scotland’s legacy from the Olympic Games really be hundreds of tons of polluted soil’? He also made the point that: ‘the waste must be dealt with appropriately and near the original site. Whatever treatment it would get in Scotland they should be doing locally; and that’s before you consider the huge carbon cost of transporting it all up to Scotland’.
The oxygen of publicity is always a stout piece of armoury. After the disclosure, the Olympic Development Authority has asked the contractors concerned to try and find a site nearer London.
SEPA will only say that it is ‘currently awaiting further information from the operator before coming to a decision’.