Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Guided tours of plant (not suitable for people with mobility problems).</p> IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9409 Refreshments No Street The street address Broughton Road Postcode EH7 4LG Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Powderhall Refuse Depot Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1768 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <p>Monumental waste handling plant, 1970, handling and processing nearly 500,000 tonnes of Edinburgh's refuse each year. The refuse is compacted into containers and despatched by rail to landfill at Dunbar. The stable block and offices of the original facility, 1893, by the City Engineer, now houses a visitors centre with an explanation of the process.�</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970