Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 19 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30938 by Gillian Martin on 7 November 2024, what modelling it has carried out on potential increases to the household recycling rate from investments made through the Recycling Improvement Fund.
A local authority is required to model projected impacts to local recycling rates of their project during the Recycling Improvement Fund application process.
Projected impacts are then reviewed by technical experts and contribute to an estimate of the total impact of all Recycling Improvement Fund projects on Scotland’s national household recycling rate.
The projected increase to the national household recycling rate from current projects is 2.5 percentage points, subsequent to the conclusion of the Fund in 2026.