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Food waste recycling gets £1.3m boost
The City of Edinburgh Council will receive almost £1.3million to support a phased roll-out of food waste collections to 140,000 households across the city this year. This is the first funding from the Scottish Government’s £4million Food Waste Programme through Zero Waste Scotland, which will help councils and businesses recycle food waste.
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How to help wildlife this winter
As snow and ice covers much of the country this week, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has issued an appeal to the public today asking everyone to help look after Scotland’s wildlife this winter by following some simple tips.
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Experts joins forces to stop bogs going down the drain
Scientists, land managers and industry officials joined forces in Edinburgh this month as a Commission of Inquiry investigates the steps needed to repair our important peatbogs, such as those in Midlothian, and return them to a state where they remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it as peat.
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Edinburgh’s Unemployed Youths go Wild for Work
Young people between 18 – 24 years old are being given the opportunity to gain valuable work experience helping to protect and conserve Scotland’s environment, thanks to the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s (SWT) leading participation in the UK Government’s new Future Jobs Fund.
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