Get clever and rejig our oil rigs

Re-using decommissioned assets from the North Sea oil and gas industry, detailed in your report last week, means we can keep these high-value items in use for as long as possible.

The former Bankside Power Station in London was converted into the Tate Modern and now welcomes more than five million visitors a year. Last year National Grid and the Royal Institute of British Architects issued a design challenge for reimagining redundant gas storage wells as housing.

We can think just as creatively here in Scotland. There could be a real ‘wow factor’ to be had in giving parts of old rigs a new life onshore and we’d welcome serious proposals to do that. Iain Gulland, Chief executive, Zero Waste Scotland