HUNDREDS of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste buried in east Glasgow are to be cleaned up in a regeneration project for a fraction of the original estimated cost.
The Shawfield area south of the Clyde was the site of J&J White's Chemical Works (later ACC Chrome and Chemicals) from the 1820s until the late 1960s. It was used as a dumping ground for hexavalent chromium, a carcinogenic substance long blamed by campaigners for the high rates of leukaemia among residents nearby.
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