Current status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 2 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the delivery of the Recycling Improvement Fund once it concludes in 2026.
The 5-year Recycling Improvement Fund will conclude at the end of 2025-26, at which point the Scottish Government will review the overall Project.
Zero Waste Scotland is completing a series of evaluations of projects funded by the RIF. The first annual Evaluation report for projects that were sufficiently mature to provide data for 2023 will be published in June 2025. Subsequent evaluations using data from 2024 and 2025 are planned and should be published in 2025 and 2026 respectively.