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Edinburgh Today Edinburgh Refuse Depot and New Incinerator |
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History Edinburgh's refuse depot in Broughton Road was built in 1893. Beside it is the incinerator, built in 1970.
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Proposals - 2009 The Broughton Road incinerator no longer burns the refuse. Instead, it is dispatched by rail from Broughton Road to a landfill site. For some time, there has been talk of building a new incinerator for Edinburgh's waste. The Evening News announced in May 2009 that: - Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils had chosen a site at Millerhill, Midlothian, about 5 miles SE of the centre of Edinbrugh, for a new waste management facility capable of handling 200,000 tonnes of waste a year - about the same amount as is currently produced by Edinburgh. - incineration was a front runner. This would provide 'energy from waste' and would avoid EU landfill fines. However, Friends of the Earth and other groups had described incineration as a 'cheap and nasty' solution and said there should be more emphasis on reducing waste and on recycling. - the councils hope that planning permission will be sought in early-2010, and that the plant will be running by 2014. Edinburgh Evening News, 20 May 2005, p. 17 |
