A recent BBC article is discussing the potential need to transport 100 lorry loads per day of domestic waste from Scotland into England, to places such as Northumberland, Cumbria, and perhaps as far as Manchester for processing due to a lack of capacity to deal with it in Scotland.
Even though this is hopefully a short-lived issue until suitable incinerator capacity is built out in Scotland; hopefully the transport solution to get the waste into England is by rail and not by road, requiring fewer drivers and less HGV traffic on routes such as the A1.
The so-called ‘Binliner’ trains are nothing new, the concept of refuse trains dating back as far as 1977, as this ‘Freight Focus: The Fragrant World of the ‘Binliner” goes into further detail.
Lets hope that if Scottish waste needs to come into England, it is put on rail, not on the roads.
The Northumberland Coast Loop 