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Zero Waste Regulations (Scotland)
As from the 1st January 2014 new regulations come into force in Scotland that specify all businesses must seperate and present metal, glass, plastic, paper and card for recycling.
What does this all mean for sign makers in Scotland and what measures are others taking to prepare for this?
A good example is we use a lot of aluminium composite material and what category would this fall into (metal or plastic)?
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Phil
doesn’t have to alter what small businesses do already if you use a waste contractor as they will be legally responsible to ensure it is sorted to the required level.http://www.sepa.org.uk/waste/moving_tow … tions.aspx
As stated on the 5th bullet point
The waste contractor that i use already sorts the waste but mainly for financial rewards rather than what Scottish regulations are trying to do
Kev
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Thanks Kevin
I have a bin that gets emptied twice a week by the council. This mainly gets all my weeded vinyl and backing paper. I’m just wondering what will happen after January the first?
The council have said nothing about any changes to their collection service, yet I will have a legal obligation to separate out paper metals glass and plastic which means my vinyl waste will have to go into a separate container to the backing paper and so on. I don’t even know if backing paper can be recycled? And what am I supposed to do with composite material – is it metal or plastic.
Once again small business is being hampered by well meaning but ill conceived regulations and bureaucracy.
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