Recycle for Scotland

This toolkit has been created to encourage recycling over the festive period

This guide aims to support local authorities to communicate any disruption to recycling and waste collections, caused by a number of reasons, to ensure citizens are aware of what is happening, what to do and how to find out more information.

This is the RFS Recycle on the Go toolkit. This toolkit contains advice and templates to help organisations to promote Recycle on the Go activities in their area, business or at an event. These materials can be downloaded and localised.

Recycle For Scotland Service Change Communications Toolkit. These materials have been created to help Scottish local authorities communicate with householders about changes to their waste and recycling services that relate to implementing the Code of Practice (CoP) for the Household Recycling Charter.

Recycle for Scotland local authority Everyone Has Food Waste toolkit. These materials target lapsed users of local authority food waste collections, providing a reminder that everyone has food waste. These templates can be downloaded and localised.

Recycle for Scotland Home Composting Toolkit. These materials focus on residents in rural areas that don’t have a food waste collection to encourage home composting. These templates can be downloaded and localised.

This toolkit has been created to help local authorities communicate with residents about the importance of recycling all of their plastic bottles. It can be used to introduce a new plastic bottle recycling service or to remind householders to recycle their plastic bottles and highlight those that are commonly forgotten about.

These guides and assets have been created to help local authorities communicate with staff and internal stakeholders about contamination. They can help with the planning and implementation of a contamination policy.

These photographs have been takento help local authorities communicate with householders about which items can be recycled. They can help with the planning and implementation of a recycling policy.

Information and guidance on recycling terminology when using the Recycle for Scotland brand.

This guide and these assets has been created to help local authorities communicate incidences of low and moderate contamination – this is defined by the Household Recycling Charter as residents who contaminate their recycling containers infrequently and not severely.

We have created this guide to help Scottish local authorities direct householders within Household Waste, Recycling and Re-use Centres. The materials included in this guide are suitable for both new and existing centres.

This material stream icons toolkit and assets have been created to help Local Authorities clearly communicate the planning and implementation of a recycling policy to householders.

Resources to support services changes as a result of disruption from Coronavirus.