Outline plans have been tabled with Aberdeen City Council for a new household waste recycling facility in the south of the city.
Waste management company Sita UK has submitted a proposal of application notice for a site at the Altens Industrial Estate, just off Hareness Place.
The plans include a mixed materials recycling facility and a refuse-derived fuel centre for processing residual waste – the substances that remain after all efforts to recycle.
The site would also include a replacement for the council’s Kittybrewster depot.
As part of its pre-application process, Sita UK will be holding public exhibitions in January and February next year.
Members of the local community will be asked to give their opinions before the plans are finalised. A planning application is due to be submitted in early spring.
Further details about the exhibitions will be made available nearer the time.
The seven-acre Altens site is one of two identified by council bosses for new recycling facilities deemed necessary to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
The other development is an energy from waste (EfW) plant to convert household rubbish into fuel to heat homes and businesses.
The authority’s proposed local development plan has identified four acres of land at Greenbank Crescent in East Tullos for the second complex.