A few photos from chairing #CyclingScotlandConf today with Cycling Scotland 🚲
The welcome address from Cab Sec Economy, Tourism & Transport Stephen Flynn & a brilliant keynote speaker Anna Holligan, BBC Foreign Correspondent & “Dutch news from the cycle lane” superstar!
And there’s more! 🚴♀️ The Love to Ride app lets you rate the routes you ride, helping provide feedback that can contribute to improving cycling infrastructure in your local area. You can also sync your rides from Strava, making logging your cycling even easier.
Happy to comment in this piece about the frustratingly unrecyclable Buzzballz which are taking the alcoholic drinks industry by storm!🍹❌♻️
BBC Cymru Wales - It's the cocktail taking young drinkers by storm - but the packaging is 'unrecyclable' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr49…
I’ve seen a growing number of products come on the market which are using these clear plastic containers/cans fused to metal tops for selling aesthetically pleasing drinks such as cocktails, matcha, iced coffee and milkshakes.
We aren’t set up for recycling this kind of packaging and creative marketing is causing a headache in our waste streams!
Great to see comments from across the industry from James Piper, Adam Herriott, and Ambarish Mitra.
"Novel ways to reduce constraint payments for taxpayers, while meaning lower bills for some Scottish billpayers, could be a win-win." @LessWasteLauraeciu.net/media/press-release…
Sometimes there is too much wind for our outdated grid to handle, especially in Scotland and the East of England.
Rather than paying wind farms to switch off we’re trialling a new system where people who live near these constrained areas get cheaper - or even free - electricity.
ALT photo of a wind farm with a headline Discounted power on windy days instead of paying to turn turbines off.
All of this destruction because of a fire that started in a vape shop.
Vapes contain lithium ion batteries, which are a huge fire risk when handled wrongly or damaged.
Huge credit to the @SFRSYourSafety and all other emergency services who worked so hard to keep this under control. This has already had a devastating impact on so many businesses who called Union St home, and we all need to step up and support them when they’re back on their feet