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The Scottish Government has allowed a new incinerator to start burning waste in Scotland, despite hundreds of objections and a local campaign against the incinerator.
The Scottish Government have pushed back the date of its ban on sending biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) to landfill for the second time to 2028. The original ban was set for 2021. This was pushed back to 2025 and has now been extended again until 2028.
Figures published today (28 Oct) show that the Scottish Government’s poor record on waste management continues, with environmental campaigners saying that sluggish recycling rates and a rise in incineration of waste are evidence of a “broken system”.
Environmental campaigners have said the draft circular economy strategy published by the Scottish Government is “a welcome step” towards a fairer and more sustainable future for all, but calls on the Scottish Government to make sure the final strategy focuses more on practical solutions and includes plans to tackle the plastic crisis and the harmful health impacts of materials.
Environmental and community campaigners have said the Scottish Government’s supposed ban on new incinerators is ‘worthless’, as a public consultation closes on plans to build a new incinerator in Irvine, North Ayrshire.
The final stage of negotiations to create a global plastics treaty to end plastic pollution have ended in a failure to agree a treaty. The process will now be extended again.
Around the Firth of Forth, people have come together to spell out messages calling for an end to plastic pollution as Global Plastics Treaty negotiations take place in Geneva.
As the final stages of three years of international talks on a Global Plastics Treaty begin in Geneva, civil society groups have called on the Scottish Government to do more…
Scotland’s renewable plans should not threaten indigenous communities
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