Recycling
Product Stewardship Considerations for Textiles in Scotland
Author / Creator: Jamie Fry
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2025
All parties involved in a product share responsibility for minimising its environmental impact.
Recycling Services Report; A Residents’ Perspective
Author / Creator: Chris Ralph
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Public knowledge, perceptions of and attitudes towards recycling services
5 Ways to Maximise Recycling
Author / Creator: Zero Waste Scotland
Date published:
Half of recyclable material goes to landfill or incineration
Scottish Waste Environmental Footprint Tool (SWEFT)
Author / Creator: Donald Chapman
Media type: Article
Date published:
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
Date published:
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
Date published:
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
Date published:
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.