5 Key takeaways from the composition of household waste report
The report looks at the composition of household waste collected at the kerbside in Scotland in 2014-15. The last time this study was carried out was in 2009, so this report provides an important update on the composition of household waste.

Nearly two thirds of what we throwaway could be recycled
On average, 59% of what goes in the non-recyclable ‘landfill’ bin could have been recycled using existing household recycling services provided by local councils. This figure doesn’t include items that go into the landfill bins that could have been recycled elsewhere, for example at a household waste recycling centre.
Of the remaining 41% of waste in landfill bins we estimate that 130,000 tonnes could have been recycled at household waste recycling centres, bottle banks and similar.