Scotland's Zero Waste Plan

Footnotes

1. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0003:EN:PDF
2. The greenhouse gas emissions figures are derived from draft research being carried out by Zero Waste Scotland, and may be subject to change. Final figures and weightings will be published by the Scottish Government at the end of the development phase of the metric.
3. For municipal waste the material composition of the waste stream will be from the WRAP report "The Composition of Municipal Waste in Scotland" http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/msw_scotland.html unless a local report is available and its methodology accepted by SEPA.
4. This is municipal waste as previously defined, that is municipal waste managed by, or on behalf of, local authorities.
5. As recycling potential is calculated on the basis of arisings it assumes recycling is through the route with the maximum benefit (e.g. closed-loop recycling or anaerobic digestion) and that incineration does not occur.
6. Use of material specific data means that the overall recycling percentage varies from the recycling percentage published by SEPA.
7. This is the theoretical maximum achievable if 100% of all recyclable materials are recycled or composted by the route with the maximum benefit.
8. Use of material specific data means that the overall recycling percentage varies from the recycling percentage published by SEPA.
   # Certain sub-categories for which recycling data is collected by SEPA were not analysed separately in the municipal waste composition study, or are not applicable to the study of waste composition (most mixed categories, as the waste was sorted for the composition analysis, and incineration residues), and are not therefore applicable to waste arisings. These categories are books (included as paper), mixed paper and card (sorted), ferrous and non-ferrous cans (included as mixed cans), mixed glass (sorted) and mixed food and garden waste (sorted). as these wastes were sorted for the analysis of municipal waste composition.
9. There are no incineration residues in arisings, as no incineration has occurred at this point. As recycling potential is calculated on the basis of arisings incineration residues are not applicable, and are unlikely to represent the recycling route with the greatest benefit.
10. For the purpose of the carbon-weighted metric "other materials" are considered non-recyclable, although in reality some may be e.g. mattresses, oils, batteries. These recyclable materials cannot be included in carbon-weighted metric as their presence in municipal waste has not been adequately quantified. This position may be revised if additional data becomes available. Their contribution to current recycling performance according to the tonnage metric is bordered by a dotted line in figure 1. A similar section, bordered by a dotted line, is shown for recycling potential, however not all of the materials in this category are potentially recyclable, therefore the maximum recycling rate, according to the tonnage-based metric, would never reach 100%.
11. Target and measurement expressed in terms of both tonnage and, from 2013, using the carbon-weighted metric.
12. Revised target derived from re-based 1995 BMW landfill figure of 3.6 million tonnes.
13. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0031:EN:NOT. Target performance measured as landfilling of EWC Chapter 15 (packaging ; selected categories that are similar in composition to household waste); Chapter 19 (selected categories that are similar in composition to household waste); and Chapter 20, all relative to a 1995 baseline.
14. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0003:EN:PDF