Zero Waste Scotland produces a range of publications and case studies containing advice on a variety of resource efficiency and waste minimisation topics.
You can navigate our most popular documents below. A more in-depth and comprehensive document directory is currently being developed to assist users in finding out more about key issues.
Publications
This guide will help you adopt a systematic approach to your water use, and help you to plan, implement and communicate an effective water management and minimisation programme in your organisation.
This guide will provide you with the tools to implement the six key stages necessary to measure and benchmark your business’s environmental performance effectively.
The guide provides practical solutions that cost nothing or little to implement and will enable office workers to identify their impact on the environment.
This guide provides you with practical advice and guidance about supply chain management and the role you can play in influencing your customers in a positive way about the goods and services they buy and use.
This guide will provide you with an understanding of why behaviour change is crucial to long-term resource efficiency. This includes the ability to develop an integrated package of interventions that will change workplace behaviour; the know how to develop communications designed to motivate people; and the ability to create a behaviour change communication plan.
This guide explains the business benefits of actively managing your resource efficiency and process improvement initiatives and describes techniques for achieving this effectively and efficiently. It also gives practical step-by-step methods and tips for ‘quick-wins’ that will drive improvement, reduce risk and build confidence.
This guide offers practical advice on getting a waste minimisation programme started and suggests some ‘quick wins’ to help. The guide also provides a five-step process to help organisations implement an effective waste management and recycling system.
Environmental accounting techniques involve identifying, analysing, managing and reducing costs associated with raw materials, utilities, services and waste, with the aim of saving money and reducing environmental impact. This guide offers practical advice and case studies to help organisations review their decision-making and information flows to enable improved environmental performance to become a key element of their strategy.
Organising an event, be it a small meeting or a major festival, can be a complex and time consuming activity. This Guide provides practical advice for Scottish businesses, organisations and individuals to ensure their events are planned and undertaken in an environmentally sustainable manner.
This guide will help you, as a manager, to better understand the opportunities that exist to work with your waste and recycling contractor to cut your business waste and the costs associated with waste disposal.
This Guide aims to provide useful, concise information about managing special waste responsibly within your business in Scotland.
This document guides you through each stage of the EMS process, from identifying significant environmental aspects – the factors your company needs to monitor and control – right through to the management review stage.
Case Studies
- Clark Contracts case study
- Mactaggart & Mickel case study
- Scotch Whisky case study
- Glasgow Restaurant case study
- Fife Council case study
- Response case study
- ATS Euromaster case study
