Making Things Last: A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.

Making Things Last: A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland sets out Government's priorities for moving towards a more circular economy – where products and materials are kept in high value use for as long as possible. It builds on Scotland's progress in the zero waste and resource efficiency agendas. The strategy prioritizes four areas of work: Food and drink, and the broader bio-economy, Remanufacture, Construction and the built environment, and Energy infrastructure, these areas are seen as the one having the most protentional for reducing waste and saving annually.
In order to make the transition toward a circular economy possible in the Strategy sets targets/ambitions and priorities within the areas of work. 1) Waste Prevention: reduce waste and use resources more efficiently in Scotland, delivering economic and environmental benefits. This principle is defined as fundamental to all of the “loops” of the circular economy. The focus is in particular on preventing food waste and waste arising from construction and demolition. The Strategy also commits to introduce a new Scottish food waste reduction target: “To reduce all food waste arising in Scotland by 33% by 2025 and work with industry to reduce on-farm losses of edible produce”. 2) Design: more Scottish products designed with their full life-cycle in mind: for long lifetimes, ready to be disassembled and repaired, and eventually recycled. 3) Reuse. 4) Repair. 5) Remanufacture. 6) Recycling. 7) Producer Responsibility for reuse and recycling. 8) Recovering value from biological resources. 9) Energy recovery. 10) Landfill