Delivering Scotland's Circular Economy - route map to 2025 and beyond: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1 Delivering Scotland’s circular economy: Proposed Circular Economy Bill: Consultation analysis

2 A sectoral breakdown of the number of respondents who provided open text comments to each question is included in Appendix D.

3 B Corporation is a private certification of for-profit companies which verifies that the company meets a certain standard of social and environmental performance

4 Zero waste stores sell loose produce to consumers in their own containers; the produce is then charged by weight.

5 https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/low-opportunity-cost-feed

6 https://incpen.org/lack-of-information-on-what-happens-to-recyclates-after-collection-risks-undermining-public-confidence-in-recycling/

7 Commercial waste zoning involves one waste collection service provider being awarded a contract to undertake all commercial collection in a defined geographical area or ‘zone’.

8 Where permission is granted, the Scottish Government publish full responses to the consultation on their website.

9 https://www.gov.scot/publications/stop-sort-burn-bury-independent-review-role-incineration-waste-hierarchy-scotland/documents/

10 UKWIN made a number of other recommendations related to incineration, which can be viewed in their full published response on the Scottish Government website

11 Responses are published on the Scottish Government’s consultation website: https://consult.gov.scot/

12 The ‘Other’ category comprises 15 organisations involved in consulting, energy, manufacturing, technology and miscellaneous sectors, and 9 membership / representative bodies not aligned with a relevant sector.