What Zero Waste Scotland can offer community groups

We have a range of materials, training and support available to help you take action on waste in your community. 

Our resources cover our key campaigns;

• Love Food Hate Waste
• Reuse (and Repair)
• Love Your Clothes
• Recycle for Scotland
• Litter and Flytipping prevention
• Reusable menstrual products (#TrialPeriod)

We can provide cascade workshops where we come out to your area and run ‘train the trainer’ events.  These are normally around 2 hours in length when face-to-face (but can be adapted), or an hour when online and we run through a workshop then leave you with access to the materials so that you can roll out the workshop (or parts of it) in your community.  We just need a venue (if face-to-face), a minimum of 12 people (staff and/or volunteers and can be from one or more community groups).  Workshops can cover;

• Love Food Hate Waste
• #MakeThingsLast (Reuse and Repair)
• Love Your Clothes
• Ditching disposables
• Re-usable menstrual products
• Little Changes (a general session covering all our campaigns)

We also run a number of weeks of action which are ideal opportunities for community groups to get involved, run events in their area, and benefit from our resources, support and national PR.  These normally include;

• Pass it on Week (normally during March)
• Recycle Week (normally during September)
• European Week for Waste Reduction (normally during November)

Our websites provide a wealth of information for you and your community.

• Zero Waste Scotland - where you are now - the home of all Zero Waste Scotland content and resources
• Love Food Hate Waste Scotland - this site is managed by WRAP, though Zero Waste Scotland support delivery of the campaign in Scotland
• Love Your Clothes - this site is managed by WRAP, but we promote this as it’s a very effective campaign in reducing textile waste.
• zerowastepartners.org.uk - a site for community groups, businesses, local authorities, educational establishments and individuals trying to spread the word, to download resources such as posters, toolkits, leaflets etc.

And our social media channels host great content that you can share. 

• Facebook:
  • /ZeroWasteScotland
  • /LoveFoodHateWasteScotland
  • /LoveYourClothesUK (managed by WRAP)
• Twitter:
  • @ZeroWasteScot
  • @LoveYourClothes (managed by WRAP)
• Instagram
  • @Howtowasteless
  • @Lovefoodhatewastescotland

Our community newsletters included information on how to help you and your community reduce, reuse and recycle.  See past issues and sign up to the mailing list at: 

Feel free to get in touch with Zero Waste Scotland for support in using any of these materials, or to check if we have anything you need but can’t see here: Communities@zerowastescotland.org.uk