Greengairs

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| unitary_scotland = North Lanarkshire

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Greengairs is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch, 1892-1905|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.9136&lon=-3.9420&layers=168&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=9 June 2017}}

Greengairs is shown on a map by Roy c.1754 under the name of Green Geirs.{{cite web|title=Roy's map of the Lowlands|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.9157&lon=-3.9359&layers=4&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=3 January 2018}} In toponymy, the name means "green strips of grass".{{cite book|last1=Drummond|first1=Peter, John|title=An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin|date=2014|publisher=Glasgow University|location=Glasgow|page=350|url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/1/2014DrummondPhD.pdf#page=351|access-date=3 July 2017}}

Lying {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} southeast of Cumbernauld and {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} north east of Airdrie, the village consists mainly of local authority housing. Between them Greengairs and Wattston have about 1,190 residents.{{cite web|title=Estimated population of localities by broad age groups, mid-2012|url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/population-estimates/special-area/mid-2012-settlements/2012-pop-est-sett-local-main-tab3a.pdf|access-date=3 January 2018}}

It developed in the nineteenth century due to increased coal mining and quarrying. Ironstone was first mined by the Summerlee Iron Company in the 1840s.{{cite web|title=Airdrie Villages|url=http://www.monklands.co.uk/airdrie%20villages/|website=Monklands Memories|access-date=3 January 2018}} It was in the parish of New Monkland or East Monkland. It also historically had its own school; the teachers had a house but no salary.{{cite book|last1=Begg|first1=James|title=The new statistical account of Scotland.|date=1845|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons|location=Edinburgh and London|pages=246–247|edition=Vol 6|url=https://archive.org/stream/b21365805_0006#page/n263/mode/2up/search/greengairs|access-date=3 January 2018}} The village was badly affected by the Stanrigg Mining Disaster{{cite web|title=OS 25 inch, 1892-1905|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.8885&lon=-3.9439&layers=168&b=1|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=9 June 2017}} where, in July 1918, a collapse led to the deaths of 19 miners, 6 of whom came from Greengairs.{{cite web|title=Stanrigg 9th July 1918|url=http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/45.html|website=Scottish Mining Website|access-date=3 January 2018}}

Greengairs power station opened in 1996, and is powered by methane produced by biodegrading materials from a large landfill site developed since 1990 in former open cast workings situated to the south of the village.{{cite web|title=Greengairs|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1448.html|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date=22 December 2012}} Greengairs is the largest landfill site in Scotland, handling waste from Glasgow and Edinburgh.{{cite web|title=Biomass Energy in Scotland|url=http://www.scotsrenewables.com/biomassinfo.html|website=Renewable Energy In Scotland|publisher=Scots Renewables|access-date=8 January 2018}} Greengairs has 6000m of pipes with biogas fed by 90 gas wells.{{cite web|title=Greengairs; Scotland|url=http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/01-02/RE_info/biomasscase.htm#Greengairs;%20Scotland|website=Biomass Case Studies|publisher=University of Strathclyde (Energy Systems Research Unit)|access-date=8 January 2018}}