Iain Gulland, Director, Zero Waste Scotland; with Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead
Zero Waste Scotland will provide awards of around £100,000 to “encourage remanufacturing”.
Edie reported on the group’s plan to offer £100,000 ($156,254/€142,894) to “remanufacturing innovators” in Scotland, as “investing in remanufacturing” could add around £620 million ($968 million/€885 million) to the Scottish economy and around 5,700 new jobs. Iain Gulland, Zero Waste Scotland’s CEO, launched the fund to “boost remanufacturing innovation”, and to encourage “remanufacturing for items such as commercial and industrial equipment, furniture and small electronics”.
The group is looking for people to develop “innovative solutions to help remanufacture products currently ‘gathering dust’”, with those interested in bidding for funding asked to respond to Zero Waste Scotland by 18 September. The Recycler previously reported on a remanufacturing report for Scotland being released, as well as on calls for remanufacturing subsidies and a remanufacturing workshop that was also announced earlier this year.
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Gulland stated: “The remanufacturing sector presents a fantastic economic opportunity for Scotland, and Zero Waste Scotland is focused on getting the right infrastructure and supply of products and materials in place for Scotland to reap the rewards. Enabling the return of high-value, priority products and materials, like electronics and machinery, back into remanufactur[ing] is the key to developing a thriving, profitable remanufacture and re-use economy in Scotland and is the focus of the latest initiative from Zero Waste Scotland to boost these sectors.
“As Scotland’s resource efficiency experts, Zero Waste Scotland is committed to the development of a more circular economy – where materials are kept in productive use as long as possible, we are keen to use the expertise and contacts of business to help solve the issues that will help these sectors reach their potential.”