A think tank which will offer advice to the government of Scotland on ways and means of achieving the ‘zero waste’ goal is to congregate for its initial meeting in Edinburgh.
Richard Lochhead, the cabinet secretary for rural affairs and the environment is to chair a meeting of waste management specialists at the think tank meet. The waste management specialists will range from academicians to council officials.
The group will come up with recommendations on new policies which were announced in January. These policies had among others outlined a rate of recycling target of seventy per cent by the year 2025. The meeting will also be expected to decide on how the one hundred and fifty four million pounds Scotland has promised will be spent.
While announcing the meeting, the cabinet secretary for rural affairs and the environment summarised the goal of the meeting as that of helping to transform Scotland into a zero waste society.
The think tank will comprise of thirteen members and they include Peter Jones, the director of Biffa Waste Services, John Ferguson SEPA’s waste and resources unit manager and Iain Gulland the network director for the Community Recycling Network for Scotland.
Also in the thirteen member team will be the director of operational services at Argyll and Bute Council, Andy Law and Chris Ewing the environmental sustainability manager for Fife Council.
Fife Council has been singled out by the government of Scotland since it is already recycling more than thirty six per cent of its waste. Fife council is also the first local authority to obligate itself to sending zero waste to landfill sites by the year 2020.
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