Tag Archives: Environmental issues

Free compost!

Free bags of compost made from recycled garden waste are being given away to mark the return of fortnightly garden waste collections and to thank residents for using the service.  To find out where, please visit Recycling Roadshows and Events web page. The compost will be given away to the first 100 residents.

To find out what you can recycle in your brown garden waste bin, please visit the garden waste page. You can also check your collection dates online: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/bindays

Recycling Advisors will be on hand to provide information about all our recycling services, and will have some food waste kitchen caddies and liners to give to those who need them.

For further information, contact

Justine Taylor MCIWM Chartered Waste Manager | Waste and Open Spaces Development Officer | Waste Services | The City of Edinburgh Council | 33 Murrayburn Road | Edinburgh | EH4 2TF | Tel 0131 469 5661 | Fax 0131 469 5149

Kerbside recycling

Calendars for the red and blue box collections are going online this year. Calendars have been posted only to those with assisted collections this week.

In recognition of the fact that more people have access to the web, and to help drive down the amount of paper and costs involved with distributing more than 140,000 calendars each year, we currently only offer the refuse, garden and food waste calendar online, and the new red and blue box calendar is now online too.  In addition, we offer a link on our website to Green Box Day so that residents can get reminders of their next collection for garden waste and red and blue boxes.

We continue to send out calendars to those residents that received help with their collections (called an assisted collection) and anyone who still wishes to have a paper copy of the calendar, can contact us either by email or by calling 0131 529 3030.

There is a directory for the red and blue boxes here: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/redandblueboxdays, which lists the collection dates, and there will be a calendar linked to this that residents can download by Wednesday next week.

Draft minutes of LCCC meeting on 17 March 2014

Here are the draft minutes of LCCC’s March Meeting: 2014_03_17 draft

Matters discussed include

  • Edinburgh Planning Concordat
  • local development plan
  • police anti-housebreaking measures
  • Cockburn Association
  • Leith Walk repairs and improvements
  • Leith Business Improvement District
  • Leith Walk trade waste pilot scheme

Towards a Litter-Free Scotland

Consultation on a strategy to tackle and prevent litter and flytipping – Analysis of Responses to the Public Consultation

The Scottish Government (SG) published the consultation paper Towards a litter-free Scotland on 4 July 2013, with written responses invited until 27 September 2013.

The consultation put forward a package of complementary measures designed to challenge individuals who litter and flytip, support those who already dispose of their waste responsibly and encourage more recycling.

An analysis of responses to the consultation was carried out by Zero Waste Scotland, and can be viewed at http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/National%20Litter%20Strategy%20Consultation.pdf

In addition, the responses to the Consultation that we have permission to publish have been placed on the Scottish Government website. These can be viewed at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/8418

The responses are now helping us SG reach a decision on the final content of the National Litter Strategy for Scotland – the first since devolution – which should be published later this year.

The Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust)

This body exists to protect and enhance the beauty of Edinburgh. Its work includes

  • protecting Edinburgh’s historic skyline
  • supporting ‘repair and reuse’ of historic buildings
  • the development and proper use of sustainable transport systems, with priority given to public transport, cycling and pedestrian environments in Edinburgh

On Monday 21 march, Marion Williams, director of the CA, spoke to Leith Central CC about how the two bodies could work together to influence the forthcoming local development plan. Both LCCC and CA wish brownfield sites to be used before any more encroachment on Edinburgh’s greenbelt occurs. To support such efforts, or to influence CA’s policies, please consider joining CA, either online or by downloading, completing and submitting this form:

CA