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Lottery adds to waste recycling schemes
04/02/2003
Two Lottery-backed schemes to help communities recycle more waste and find greener ways to improve their communities were opened to applications today.
Transforming Waste Scotland and Transforming your Space are backed with £8.6 million of money from the New Opportunities Fund.
Deputy Environment and Rural Development Minister Allan Wilson said:
"Each year in Scotland we bury valuable resources in landfill sites. Finding cleaner and more efficient ways to dispose of municipal waste is crucial.
"It is clear that turning around Scotland's poor record on waste recycling can only succeed through a change in attitudes.
"These schemes provide an important tool in bringing about that change. Community groups will be able to apply for grants from these schemes for a host of different projects which are both environmentally friendly and bring more sustainable use of our land and material resources.
"The schemes outlined today will go some way to expand community sector waste, re-use, recycling and composting projects which will be further developed by the Executive's ambitious National Waste and Area Waste Plans to be announced shortly.
"The throwaway society is not sustainable and these local projects have a significant role to play in the Executive's drive to make Scotland greener, cleaner and safer.
"It is only by working together that the Executive's ambitious drive to recycle 25 per cent of all municipal waste by 2006 can be realised. I wish these projects and those leading them every success."