News & articles
Explore the latest news, articles and practical guidance from Zero Waste Scotland, covering circular economy, waste reduction, resource efficiency and sustainability in action.
- Circular Economy
Where is value being lost in your business?
With decades of experience helping manufacturers move to more circular practices, Colin Kennedy, Zero Waste Scotland’s Manufacturing Partner, shares how to identify where materials, energy and money are being lost within your business.
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- Circular Economy
Keeping products and materials in circulation
With decades of experience helping manufacturers move to more circular practices, Colin Kennedy, Zero Waste Scotland’s Manufacturing Partner, shares how to retain more value from the products, materials and components already moving through your business.
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- Circular Economy
- Food & Drink
The role of training and green champions in reducing food waste
Food waste isn't a technology problem or a bins problem. It's a people problem, and that's exactly why training and staff engagement are key.
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- Circular Economy
- Food & Drink
Why KPI setting is the missing ingredient in food waste reduction
Your business generates waste data every day. By measuring food waste and tracking clear KPIs, you can turn data into action, reducing lost stock, wasted labour and avoidable costs.
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- Circular Economy
Circular places – a place based approach
As part of Zero Waste Scotland’s ambition for Scotland to embrace a circular economy we are exploring opportunities, engaging and supporting at a local level. This approach, in addition to supporting key sectors, will allow us to encourage responsible production where we 'make, use, remake' as opposed to 'make, use, dispose'.
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- Circular Economy
Programme for Government: Public Sector Reform and Environment Public Bodies – statement from Zero Waste Scotland
The Scottish Government has set out its plans for Public Service Reform as part of the Programme for Government. An important change is proposed for Zero Waste Scotland.
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- Construction
- Circular Economy
CirCoFin feasibility study for Scotland
As Scotland's only national-scale CirCoFin showcase, Zero Waste Scotland is exploring how a Circular Construction Hub can unlock investment, enable construction material reuse at scale, and provide a roadmap for national implementation in support of a circular economy.
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- Construction
- Circular Economy
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Keep up to date with our work to advance circular economy practices in Scotland’s built environment.
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- Circular Economy
- Climate Crisis
Zero Waste Scotland publishes the nation’s most in-depth Material Flow Accounts to date
Zero Waste Scotland publishes the nation’s most in-depth Material Flow Accounts to date, highlighting risks to Scotland’s resource resilience.
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