Tag: Glasgow

National Theatre of Scotland will Fly The Flag for Human Rights in Glasgow as part of UK wide engagement project

Stuart Mitchell

Launch of National Theatre of Scotland’s Neighbourhood Project with Fly The Flag performance created with the pupils from St Teresa’s Primary School in Glasgow. Choreographer and facilitator Saffy Setohy, working with dance artist Joanna Young has been creating a new performance celebrating the art of protest with P5 & P6 pupils from St Teresa’s Primary School in North Glasgow. They have been running weekly creative workshops in the school as part of Fly The Flag, a unique annual nationwide celebration of human rights. The workshops will culminate in a special…

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First Bus to invest over £35m in green transport for Glasgow with help from SULEB funding from Transport Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

First Bus are delighted to announce that over £59million will be invested in new fully electric and zero emission vehicles for the city of Glasgow. These new buses are scheduled to be introduced to the Glasgow city bus network by December 2022, thanks to a successful bid in Transport Scotland’s latest round of Scottish Ultra Low Emission Bus (SULEB) funding.    In January 2020 First Bus launched two electric buses in Glasgow (pictured). Today’s SULEB 2 announcement will increase the number of electric vehicles in the Glasgow fleet to 150*…

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Glasgow Goes Back To The Future With Unveiling Of New Electric Buses For The City

Stuart Mitchell

First Glasgow will roll out two all-electric buses as it becomes the city’s first commercial bus operator to introduce state-of-the-art fully-electric vehicles onto a commercial bus route since the 1960s, following funding from electricity distributor SP Energy Networks. The new buses are a statement of intent for the city’s transport, as they look to join the electric revolution to help meet their bold target of net zero emissions by 2030. The launch of these vehicles means the city has now come full circle back to fully electric transport on commercial…

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Sainsbury’s launches new recycling scheme in Glasgow

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has launched a Reverse Vending Recycling trial at its Braehead Superstore in Glasgow, allowing customers to return plastic bottles and drinks cans in exchange for money off their shopping. Braehead becomes the first Sainsbury’s store in Scotland, and only the third in the UK, to offer this service to customers. From now, customers can deposit plastic bottles of any size up to 3 litres and aluminium drinks cans in a machine at the store entrance, in exchange for a coupon that’s worth 5p per item towards their shopping. Up…

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Keep Scotland Beautiful Aim to be Transforming Glasgow’s relationship with single-use cups

Stuart Mitchell

Keep Scotland Beautiful are excited to announce the launch of their Cup Movement in Glasgow – thought to be Scotland’s first cup recycling and behaviour change campaign. The Cup Movement is their trial initiative to stop single-use cups either going to landfill or ending up as litter and is our response to growing public concern about the environmental impact of single-use items. With an estimated 95 million single-use cups being used in the Greater Glasgow area every year, the pioneering project will tackle this issue head on by transforming recycling…

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