Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) statisticians have published Official Statistics today (27 October 2020) which provide detail of Household Waste collected across all Local Authorities during 2019. Carbon impact of waste down 1.1 mill… read more
Scientists at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s (SEPA) have successfully pinpointed fragments of coronavirus’ ribonucleic acid (RNA) in local waste water samples across the country. SEPA was among the first European agencies to begin th… read more
Communities, businesses and travel networks across the north and east of Scotland benefitted from an early warning of flooding as record-breaking rainfall hit parts of Aberdeenshire. SEPA Flood Forecasting and Warning gave four days’ notice of flo… read more
Chris Dailly, Head of Environmental Performance at SEPA, said: “Whilst we are pleased that the site has now returned to normal operations and is no longer flaring, we remain frustrated by the frequency of flaring and the flow of information from th… read more
“Whilst its again important to stress that limited, controlled flaring is an authorised and important safety feature of industrial sites, we’ve heard clearly from over 380 reports to SEPA of the impact this further flaring event is having on local … read more