Zero Waste Podcast 1: The Journey of Waste

What happens to our rubbish when we chuck it? Join us as we travel from bin to bucket-lorry, from claw to compactor, from train to tipping on the journey of waste. Meet a noisy hawk, ride a fork lift truck and hear live wretching all in one stinking podcast:

See the journey of waste with the flickr photo slideshow:

There’s more about what you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle from Leith based Environmental Organisation Changeworks  or from Zero Waste Scotland.

This Zero Waste podcasts series is funded by the City of Edinburgh Council Waste Action Grants. Here’s more from Waste Education Officer Anita Sharkey on how a grant can help you to reduce waste in your community: 

Thanks to the staff at Powerhall Waste Transfer Station and Dunbar Viridor Landfill Site for sharing their stories with Greenerleith for the journey of waste.

The Zero Waste Podcast series is produced by Emily Dodd for Greener Leith and funded by City of Edinburgh Council Waste Action Grants, Vegware and Changeworks. 

If you have iTunes installed on your computer you can subscribe to our audio as a podcast by clicking here. 

The theme tune for the podcast was brought to you by Waste Action Grant funded project, Trash Arts.

Comments

[Broughton Spurtle]

Informative as always. Amusing as ever. Among the best nearly-being-sick sounds I have ever had the pleasure of hearing broadcast. Keep up the good work, Emily!

[Emily Dodd]

Thanks Alan (:

[Broughton Spurtle]

Did you know that St Mark's Park and Victoria Park are both old landfill sites? The odd lumps and bumps at St Mark's are caused by subsidence, and it's not unknown for flames to spout out occasionally. I understand there's a covering layer of topsoil, then clinker and ashes, then 19th and early 20th-century archaeology. However, you'd be well advised to talk to health and safety before having a rummage. I've seen maps of former landfills in the office at Powderhall ... they can probably tell you more.