Category: Updates

In February 2024 Transport Scotland announced the closure of the Sustrans “Places for Everyone” funding programme by September 2025. Transport…Continue readingLooking ahead

In 2023 I recorded gull nests in the locality. Gull nests are easier to see from a good vantage point…Continue readingGull Watch 2023 and 2024

Big shout out and thank you to Effective Consumable Solutions Ltd for choosing us as one of the Charities to…Continue readingBig Thank You

April was another busy month for the Team at Recycling First as the figures below show. Please remember you can…Continue readingRecycling First April 2024 Achievements

The drop in workshop has been well used, by some familiar faces and others who have a particular issue to…Continue readingSpring ‘24

Managed retreat is a strategic approach to adapting to coastal erosion and sea-level rise by relocating structures and ceasing development…Continue readingIt’s Not Natural

In March 2023 a public survey asked our local community their views on a wide range of topics that the…Continue readingDo you have views about land use in and around West Barns and Dunbar?

Several years back (May 2020) this is the reply I got from ELC, which was classified as an Freedom of…Continue readingWhat is the estimated nesting gull population in East Lothian?

Following complaints from local residents arising from Valencia’s landfill site at Oxwell Mains, I was delighted to secure an onsite…Continue readingValencia Update: odour complaints again

With a concentration of industries in the locality with potential to create malodours, what to do? SEPA lines of contact:…Continue readingOdour Aware