“Walking up the High Street in Stromness, looking at the Móti exhibition we also noticed this…”
Bin Art?
Recycling Update from Orkney Islands Council
From Monday 23rd of November
Developing New PPE Materials
Most PPE materials are single use, contain plastics, are not easily recyclable and end up in our landfills, or worse yet, discarded into the environment.
Hope Recycling Centre to ReOpen
The recycling centre at St Margaret’s Hope will re-open on Tuesday 24 November.
Developing Alternatives: ‘Green’ Food Containers
“Making food containers is challenging. It needs more than being biodegradable.”
18.8% of Household Waste in Orkney was Recycled in 2019
2.4 million tonnes of household waste was generated in Scotland in 2019, a slight increase from 2018.
From Butts to Building Bricks
Researchers at RMIT University, Australia, have been working on developing bricks that use recycled cigarette butts in their composition.
Rise in waste incineration “a major threat to Scotland’s recycling targets.”
“With over 2 million tonnes of household waste generated in 2018 and a target to recycle 70% of that by 2025, our projected incineration capacity just doesn’t add up.” FOE
South Isles Residents Campaign Against Continued Closure of Recycling Centre
Half the population of the linked islands of Burray and South Ronaldsay have signed a petition ‘to insist on the re-opening of the recycling centre in St. Margaret’s Hope’.
Treasures From The Shoreline
“In this year’s on-line Orkney International Science Festival there are a number of events about how to make imaginative use of things we find on the beach – shore-line Wombling, if you like!”
