BBC Scotland this morning, telling us that experts are predicting a waste crisis. ‘Experts?’ David Balmer ‘Landfill manager’
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They have one more – ‘Waste consultant Alasdair Meldrum, of Albion Environmental, says he has not seen such a looming crisis in almost 40 years of working in the industry.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlymw74g20ro
These people have vested interests, are ‘company men’, and are not impartial nor are they ‘experts’ in the sense of being researchers in higher education.
Does this BBC report accurately reflect recent impartial academic research on their suggestion of a potential crisis and the likelihood of rubbish piling up on the streets?
That language is stronger than the most recent official analyses. Zero Waste Scotland (working with SLR Consulting for the Scottish Government) published updated energy-from-waste and landfill-capacity assessments in 2025–2026. Those studies do identify a capacity gap of roughly 0.36–0.53 million tonnes in 2026 under different recycling and self-sufficiency scenarios, note that most remaining landfills plan to close in 2025–27, and warn that the Scottish incinerator fleet has little spare headroom. They explicitly state that a prolonged unplanned shutdown of a large plant would require either export or temporary emergency landfilling. They do not, however, forecast uncollected household waste accumulating on public streets; they treat that outcome as avoidable with contingency planning, continued exports to England, and the two-year regulatory delay already granted until January 2028. https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/resources/energy-waste-capacity-report
Glasgow City Council, which is using a mix of other incinerators and the remaining landfill, states it currently has enough outlets and that collections should continue as normal. The Scottish Government similarly says it is monitoring capacity and preparing contingencies. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlymw74g20ro
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“looming crisis”
Meanwhile in Labour run Birmingham there is a real actual ongoing “crisis” via a prolonged unresolved Bin strike, which has been running since January 2025.
Maybe these “Experts” should try speaking to the residents of Birmingham who I am sure would tell them to “0121 do one” (Telling someone to get lost using Birmingham’s telephone area code).
The BBC loves generating rubbish stories concerning Scotland as they think that any old garbage is worth promoting if it presents Scotland in a bad light and so being seen as #S****.
Most of the ‘Experts’ they find are a waste of space and they always seem to want to dump their S**** observations upon us constantly, to then make Scotland look so very #bad as well as also trying to make the SNP (as the Scottish government) appear to be #BAD as well.
I am just glad that many people within Scotland refuse to watch or listen to the BBC as much of the public can obviously see that most of their BBC news output, (badly) disguised as real news, is nowt more than junk news.
BBC news equals trash TV that contaminates and pollutes the supposed , but clearly not, “News where you are”.
Liz S
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BBC Scotland = A propaganda outfit. It is nothing more.
For anyone still paying the £180, cancel the licence, get what you can back from them, but don’t break the rules regarding watching Live Streaming TV and I-Player.
Any letters you get from the TV Licensing put straight into the bin, they are computer generated threats to try and “make” you pay them. The upside right enough is that their letters help keep the posties in a job.
Believe me, you will certainly feel the better for it and so will your finances.
Stephen McKenzie
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