Waste tips caused decimation of vegetation and habitats that this supported.
"There are also well-known complications with the land behind the South stand, due to it being a former waste tip.
Benbecula is, I should make clear, staggeringly, mournfully beautiful, and my walk dismisses the waste tip at a stroke by simply striking out into open, unoccupied moorland.
Study this list of words for about 1.5 seconds each: garbage, waste, tip, disposal, broom, trash, heap, dump, refuse, sack, junk, rubbish, bag, recycle.
Many of the edgeland features on which they chanced, from giant, dome-shaped waste tips to pools rich in the fish and amphibians driven out of the farmed countryside, turned out to be as-yet unnamed and unacknowledged.
When the waste tip at Dounreay exploded in 1977, the industry heroically halved its response time: the public had to wait for only 18 years before discovering that it had been living with the hazardous results.
Mark Reichardt, one of the OGC's directors, likens the consortium's aim to that of the Linux operating system, and suggests that the day is not far off when existing, disjointed databases (of health statistics or poverty in a region, for example) could be overlaid routinely on to, say, maps of the sites of waste tips or chemical plants.
Plans for 113 new homes at a former nuclear waste tip in a Derbyshire village have been thrown out.
The visit is a sign of her continued support for the community since a coal waste tip slid down a mountain, engulfing a school and surrounding houses.
Among survivors was David Davies, who was aged eight and a pupil at the school when it was engulfed by coal waste tip.
