The first Zero Waste Plan for Scotland launched in June 2010 continues to build on past achievements and on-going progress, and has set a course for the actions that are required in the future. It proposes long term targets of recycling 70% of all Scotland’s waste, and only 5% of remaining waste ending up in landfill by 2025 (within an overall context of reducing waste).
The Zero Waste Plan places a specific action on Zero Waste Scotland (Action 10) to encourage and support investment in innovative resource management technologies. Zero Waste Scotland recognises that innovation in recycling technologies and product development will play a crucial role in providing the best overall environmental and economic outcomes going forward as well as being essential to achieving a zero waste economy in Scotland.
Zero Waste Scotland wishes to encourage and support innovation in order to help bring new ideas to market rapidly and ensure results are widely shared and adopted by the industry and will provide discretionary support for innovation through a series of funding initiatives aimed at recycling and manufacturing companies and organisations in both the private and third sector.
This is a therefore a Scotland-wide call for innovative recycling propositions and advances which have the potential to make a significant impact in reducing the amount of waste going to landfill in Scotland and increasing the amount of resources re-processed in Scotland into closed-loop or added-value applications.
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