Dunfermline Press
Summary
Plans to extend the anaerobic digestion plant at the Lochhead landfill site by more than 3,000 square metres were approved last year and Fife Council are now ready to proceed after meeting a number of pre-development conditions.
It turns the contents of the brown bins collected from kerbs throughout Fife into electricity and heat and although there won't be an increase in the 40,000 tonnes of waste it treats each year, the new reception hall will help remove contamination.
A by-product of the process, heat, is used in the council's district heating system, with underground pipes supplying hot water to public and private buildings such as the Broomhead Flats, the Carnegie Leisure Centre, the Tesco Fire Station store, Fire Station Creative and the new apartments in the Linen Quarter.
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