5.4 Waste management
Scottish Government key targets/commitments:
- We will continue to embed circular economy principles in to the wider green recovery and take steps to reduce food waste through the Food Waste Reduction Action Plan delivering against our ambitious target to reduce food waste by one third by 2025 (against a 2013 baseline) - Climate Change Plan update.
- End landfilling of biodegradable municipal waste by 2025, reduce the percentage of all waste sent to landfill to 5% by 2025 and recycle 70% of all waste by 2025 - Making Things Last - a circular economy strategy for Scotland
- We will develop a route map to outline how we will deliver our waste and recycling targets in a way that maximises carbon saving potential, and are investing £70 million to make the right option the easy option for household recycling - Climate Change Plan update.
- We will consider measures to ensure new energy from waste plants are more efficient and how waste infrastructure can be ‘future-proofed’ for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology - Climate Change Plan update.
- Consider the role of incineration and fiscal incentives, such as a waste tax.