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14 October 2011 - Zero Waste Regulations Published
The Policy Statement for the Zero Waste (Scotland) Regulations has now been published.
Waste management is a service upon which businesses and households across Scotland depend. The Regulations will help deliver the Government's zero waste agenda and recycling targets while also ensuring that the minimum level of service on offer is better than that of today.
To drive forward changes to how waste is managed in Scotland, the Regulations introduce a series of regulatory measures to:
- maximise the quantity and quality of materials available for recycling and minimise the need for residual waste treatment capacity;
- move residual waste management up the waste hierarchy so as to extract resource value from those materials we can't recycle;
- create the market certainty needed to support investment by businesses in the recycling, materials reprocessing and waste management sector;
- improve public confidence in recycling to help reaffirm Scotland's position as a recycling nation.
The Scottish Government consulted on the draft Zero Waste Scotland Regulations in early 2011 ( Consultation and Responses). In reply to this consultation and ongoing dialogue with stakeholders, the Policy Statement sets out the decisions that will underpin the final form of the regulations that will be laid before the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish Government is not consulting on the positions set out in this paper as there has already been extensive consultation on the policy. Comments are however sought on the draft Business Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) that accompanies this policy statement. Responses will be accepted until Tuesday 24 November 2011.