6.60 National Planning Policy Guideline 10: Planning and Waste Management (NPPG 10) sets the context for the City’s Waste Strategy. Waste is a by-product of all of the City’s activities and needs to be managed in a safe and sustainable manner. The management and disposal of the 850,000 tonnes of waste produced by Glasgow every year from all sources, including households, businesses, parks and gardens, and hospitals is undertaken by the Council and private waste management companies. The Council collects and disposes of around 400,000 tonnes of waste each year.

6.61 The Council’s household and commercial waste collection service is managed through four Transfer Stations, two landfill sites and a network of seventy recycling sites across the City. The four transfer stations are at Polmadie (High Density Baling Plant), Dawsholm (Medium Density Baling Plant), Easter Queenslie Bulk Transfer Station and Shieldhall Bulk Transfer Station (Figure 6.10). The Council’s landfill sites at Summerston and Kilgarth (North Lanarkshire) are both now closed. Approval was given, in 1999, for a new landfill site at Cathkin, South Lanarkshire. The site is now fully operational and is expected to provide a further 10 years of landfill capacity for the City.

6.62 In addition to these public facilities, the private waste management sector provides facilities across the City to support its own activities, including Transfer Stations, Paper Merchants, Scrap Merchants and the landfill site at Greenoakhill (Figure 6.10). A full list of all the operating and consented waste management facilities is included in the City Plan Technical Note: Infrastructure - Waste Management.