Scotland’s Environment Centre: Go Green

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The effects of Climate Change are apparent everywhere, from wildfires throughout the world to the melting of the icecaps. Us everyday people are encouraged more and more to ‘go green’ through recycling and being more mindful when purchasing. With COP26 being held in Glasgow there hasn’t been a better time for the people of Scotland to take initiative and become more environmentally friendly.

This requires all counties in Scotland to do better in terms of stopping Climate Change. The new Scotland International Environment Centre being approved on 7th September and based in Alloa will help people and businesses in the wee county and all over Scotland-go green.

The centre comes off the back of the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Deal with Stirling University stating the centre is aiming to put £114 million into the region as well as create 125 new jobs. However, Lauren and Michael from Zero Waste Organics, a local eco-friendly business running in Tillicoultry, said: The impact it’s going to have, I think personally that projects of this size and scale, they tend to work a lot more with industry leaders and you can understand why. You can get a bigger bang for your buck as such if you work with Tesco as opposed to a small business.”

There is still some unknown about the Environment centre with Alloa First Project Manager, Diane Brown, saying: “I keep asking the question as to what its purpose is, and no-one has managed to give me any answers.”

Michael said: “I think it’s’ brilliant [that] the centres going to be there and especially that it’s going to be so local to us, but it is quite hard to understand the impact it’s going to have, especially at grassroots level.

Definitely projects of that size and scale tend to work a lot more with industry leaders and you can understand why.”

Stirling University page on ‘Scotland’s International Environment Centre: Scotland’s International Environment Centre (SIEC) is a pioneering collaboration that will create an ‘innovation community’ in the Forth Valley, driving the creation of a net zero regional economy and acting as a global exemplar of low-carbon growth.