Glasgow could become the site of the Europe’s largest energy-from-waste farm.
Some 29 hectares of land on a former farm near Newton Mearns have been designated for the £640 million project, which has been dubbed the Lifetime Recycling Village, Herald Scotland has reported.
If constructed, the facility will have the capacity to process 1. 5 million tonnes of commercial rubbish annually, supplying enough electricity for 100,000 homes.
William Findlay, one of three developers behind the project, has dismissed environmentalists' concerns about the project.
He said: "We will take rubbish in and nothing will go out apart from things that can be reused, hot water and electricity.
"We think the air to come out of our facility will be cleaner than the air that goes in – after all we will be near a major motorway."
The company, called Lifetime Recycling, has said that it already has provisional agreements with local firms to burn waste for £60 per tonne.
It was reported earlier this week that a £200 million energy-from-wine site has been approved for Lothian.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the recycling industry includes; elevators – bucket elevators – valves
