A key commitment in relation to single-use plastics is to publish a Product Stewardship Plan by 2025/26 which will “Develop further measures to tackle consumption of problematic single-use items”. The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 also requires the Scottish Government to publish a new circular economy strategy, which must be guided by the ‘waste hierarchy’ i.e. the need to prioritise measures that first seek to prevent waste, followed by re- use, recycling, other recovery (e.g. energy recovery), and finally disposal.