| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stirling Road recycling centre | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 11/11/24 14:56:00 |
| Looking at the timeline of events, it seems likely that the original decision to close was based on the potential value of the land. There was a lot of talk of another self storage facility at the site. The contamination issue may have put paid to that idea. A full reopening may have been considered but councils are saving money by sending unrecyclable waste for incineration which is much cheaper than landfill. This reduces pressure to increase cycling rates and therefore the return on a recycling facility like Stirling Road. Why then hasn't it been reopened as a recycling hub? I'm guessing again but possibly it proved impossible to get third party organisations to base themselves there so the site would have basically been made up of a few recycling containers. If this is correct, the biggest mistake in all this was the underestimation of the contamination issue which may or may not be down to the council. What ever has happened, a bit more transparency wouldn't go amiss. |