Observations from Alasdair Meldrum .. As discussed on episode 9 of the podcast, I spent the weekend in Poland visiting my son who was doing an Erasmus placement as part of his degree. First impression was a busy town with lots of tourists but wherever you went there was next to no litter, no cigarette …
Krakow – How do they keep their streets so clean and tidy? Read More »
In episode 2 of Rubbish Talk we discussed briefly the growing trend towards putting flowers, wreaths and mementos on public seats. Alasdair expressed the view that it is great that people donate benches (usually in memory of a loved one) for use in public spaces. However he was strongly of the opinion that that did …
Rubbish Rant – Public Benches (From Rubbish Talk episode 2) Read More »
We have been seeing a roll out of the new waste management licence templates from SEPA (now called Waste Management Permit). It is good to see a change from the pages of conditions on the previous waste management licences but has this gone too far the other way? The ones we have seen have …
Thoughts on new Waste Management Licences (WML) from SEPA Read More »
The Scottish Government has published the second report of its incineration review, the remit of this one is a review of options to decarbonise Scotland’s residual waste infrastructure. https://www.gov.scot/publications/stop-sort-burn-bury-independent-review-role-incineration-waste-hierarchy-scotland-second-report-decarbonisation-residual-waste-infrastructure-scotland/documents/ A quick summary; Colin Church was asked to consider: What does the current carbon impact of disposal of waste look like? What are the possible …
