Towards a litter-free Scotland: a strategic approach to higher quality local environments

Footnotes

1. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 3.1.1. Local authorities clear at least 15,000 tonnes of litter every year - section 3.2.1

2. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 4.6

3. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 4.5.1

4. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 4.5.1.

5. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 5.1.3.

6. Scotland's Litter Problem: Quantifying the scale and cost of litter and flytipping - section 4.4.

7. Resource efficiency can boost competitiveness and reduce the impact on the environment through action to conserve and maximise the efficient use of energy, water and raw materials.

8. In a circular economy waste is 'designed out' of how we live. Materials are kept in use, retaining their value, for as long as possible before being recycled sustainably.

9. Low Carbon Scotland: A Behaviours Framework - How best can we influence behaviours?

10. The executive summary is designed for wider readership. Plain language materials will be produced through the improved communications action.

11. The Product Sustainability Forum includes grocery and home-improvement retailers and suppliers, academics, NGOs and government.

12. The Courtauld Commitment is a voluntary agreement to improve resource efficiency and reduce the carbon and wider environmental impact of the grocery sector.

13. The Packaging Recycling Group Scotland is a group of trade organisations and companies from across the drinks and food-packaging supply chain.

14. The current cleanliness standards are set out within COPLAR. Ministers' power to set the standard is contained within Section 89 of the Environmental Protection Act.

15. FlyMapper is an online reporting system for litter practitioners to record flytipping. It was developed by Zero Waste Scotland and SEPA, in partnership with Natural Resources Wales.

16. The bespoke app is for use in the field, recording the location, type, quantity and photograph of the material flytipped. FlyMapper enables easy identification of incidents and black spots.

17. As outlined in 'Towards A Litter-Free Scotland' consultation Supplementary Information, page 4.