Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce the amount of carpet material being sent to landfill.
The Scottish Government is working to divert a wide range of materials, including carpets, from landfill through increasing the rate of recycling, and where appropriate remanufacture and re-use. These measures include supporting the Recycle for Scotland website, which has advice on recycling many materials; the Re-use Line which helps people pass products on; and Revolve accreditation which is a re-use quality standard that is held, for instance, by Spruce Carpets in Glasgow which takes unwanted carpet and prepares it for sale.
Furthermore, in 'Making Things Last - A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland', we have committed to examining how producer responsibility can increase recycling, remanufacture and re-use for a number of materials that are difficult to deal with.