Recycling

Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT)

Author / Creator: Donald Chapman

Media type: Article

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The Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT) provides a holistic picture of the environmental impact of the things we dispose of from our homes.


How Should Scotland Manage its Scrap Steel?’ The environmental assessment.

Author / Creator: Charlotte Stamper

Media type: Policy Paper

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Zero Waste Scotland’s analysts detail the ‘clear and obvious’ environmental benefits of using Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology, powered by Scotland’s low-carbon electricity grid, to remanufacture scrap steel in Scotland. 


The Common Home Plan – Technical Report

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

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This Technical Report is an annex to The Common Home Plan, a part of Our Common Home – A Green New Deal for Scotland. The fact that this book represents the broadest and most detailed Green New Deal blueprint yet published for any country means that it covers a great many of topics in detail and thus draws upon a vast body of literature and other previously published work.


The Common Home Plan

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

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There are a number of policy tools which can be used to encourage transformative changes to our lifestyles. However, it should be noted that most of these policy tools are designed to enact structural change rather than individual change and, again, it must not be read that these can simply be introduced into a free market economy as if they will succeed in shifting those markets. They won't, at least not as a result of individual behaviours. The Plan details the the changes needed.