I thought you can’t export within the same country? Interesting wording.
Edit: I think a lot of you are missing the point. We are told Scotland can’t export electricity or oil all the time, when it’s something ‘negative’ like this suddenly it’s exported.
This is interesting because of how only incinerators already approved in 2022 are going to be built, because of concerns about overcapacity.
But that also means it’s a relative handful of large facilities, so if there’s a maintenance issue, stuff will pile up quickly.
It’s also why many councils charge for garden waste uplift now. Everything has a cost.
That’s not a nice way to describe the Reform Scotland-branch Great British road-tour of Wetherspoons pubs.
The level of waste produced is insane – food waste, takeaway packaging – folks ability to produce it is limitless – tell them to use less, and they have a literal meltdown.
Now they’re taking our precious rubbish!
> introduce a bill to reduce landfill waste
> unable to manage waste
> send it south to be handled the same way it was previously in Scotland, generating more emissions from trucks carrying it
> pat yourself of the back for saving the world
Seems legit
Yay for once England has to deal with out sh#£ instead of us deiling with theirs.
Long may it continue
Oh god, you lot are migrating too!?
They could just push the ban until things are in place but that would be crazy talk, let’s do this more polluting more expensive option.
Keep Scotland tidy, throw your rubbish in England.
To be clear are we speaking about the noir series Shetland?
Hmm, I wonder what happened to all those ‘Keep Scotland beautiful, dump your rubbish in England’ car stickers beloved of motorists in the 1980’s…
Quality
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>The Scottish government wants to stop traditional black bag waste being buried in the ground by increasing recycling rates and using more energy-from-waste incinerators.
>However, four years on from the date of the original plan, environmental consultants have concluded that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish still have no home.
>”We’ve got plans for more incinerators, with energy from waste schemes, to come on in the next year, and over the next three years – so it is a temporary situation.”
>While the reason for the ban is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases coming from landfill sites, the short-term impact will be a rise in emissions from the fleet of heavy vehicles taking the waste to sites in Cumbria, Northumberland or potentially as far away as Manchester.
>The long-term strategy had been to reduce the amount of “black bag” waste households generate, meaning less would have to be incinerated.
>But domestic recycling rates have barely budged in a decade
Doesn’t this just perfectly summise Scotgov.
Come up with an ambitious policy by banning something they don’t like.
Need to complete an ambitious project to replace the banned thing.
The project is years late.
It is part of on a long term strategy which is unevidenced and for which Scotgov has no real plan or made any progress towards achieving in the last decade.
In the short term, incompetence means they are running 4 years late and look to need a further 2-3 years.
Rather than admit this and pause the project, they proceed with the ban and achieve a short term result worse than the pre ban status quo.
All at a cost of millions overbudget.
All very familiar now.
Stealing our rubbish? Will it ever end? That’s our rubbish to do with as we please!
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I thought you can’t export within the same country? Interesting wording.
Edit: I think a lot of you are missing the point. We are told Scotland can’t export electricity or oil all the time, when it’s something ‘negative’ like this suddenly it’s exported.
This is interesting because of how only incinerators already approved in 2022 are going to be built, because of concerns about overcapacity.
But that also means it’s a relative handful of large facilities, so if there’s a maintenance issue, stuff will pile up quickly.
It’s also why many councils charge for garden waste uplift now. Everything has a cost.
That’s not a nice way to describe the Reform Scotland-branch Great British road-tour of Wetherspoons pubs.
The level of waste produced is insane – food waste, takeaway packaging – folks ability to produce it is limitless – tell them to use less, and they have a literal meltdown.
Now they’re taking our precious rubbish!
> introduce a bill to reduce landfill waste
> unable to manage waste
> send it south to be handled the same way it was previously in Scotland, generating more emissions from trucks carrying it
> pat yourself of the back for saving the world
Seems legit
Yay for once England has to deal with out sh#£ instead of us deiling with theirs.
Long may it continue
Oh god, you lot are migrating too!?
They could just push the ban until things are in place but that would be crazy talk, let’s do this more polluting more expensive option.
Keep Scotland tidy, throw your rubbish in England.
To be clear are we speaking about the noir series Shetland?
Hmm, I wonder what happened to all those ‘Keep Scotland beautiful, dump your rubbish in England’ car stickers beloved of motorists in the 1980’s…
Quality
Normal comments on show again
>The Scottish government wants to stop traditional black bag waste being buried in the ground by increasing recycling rates and using more energy-from-waste incinerators.
>However, four years on from the date of the original plan, environmental consultants have concluded that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish still have no home.
>”We’ve got plans for more incinerators, with energy from waste schemes, to come on in the next year, and over the next three years – so it is a temporary situation.”
>While the reason for the ban is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases coming from landfill sites, the short-term impact will be a rise in emissions from the fleet of heavy vehicles taking the waste to sites in Cumbria, Northumberland or potentially as far away as Manchester.
>The long-term strategy had been to reduce the amount of “black bag” waste households generate, meaning less would have to be incinerated.
>But domestic recycling rates have barely budged in a decade
Doesn’t this just perfectly summise Scotgov.
Come up with an ambitious policy by banning something they don’t like.
Need to complete an ambitious project to replace the banned thing.
The project is years late.
It is part of on a long term strategy which is unevidenced and for which Scotgov has no real plan or made any progress towards achieving in the last decade.
In the short term, incompetence means they are running 4 years late and look to need a further 2-3 years.
Rather than admit this and pause the project, they proceed with the ban and achieve a short term result worse than the pre ban status quo.
All at a cost of millions overbudget.
All very familiar now.
Stealing our rubbish? Will it ever end? That’s our rubbish to do with as we please!
Sending JK Rowling back are we?
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