About Us

The Scottish Waste Awareness Group (SWAG) was set up in 2000 with the remit of changing public attitudes and behaviour towards domestic waste.

One of SWAG's key aims is to deliver the national Waste Aware Scotland campaign*. The programme aims to raise awareness of, and change public attitudes towards reduce, reuse and recycle and is closely linked to the National Waste Plan for Scotland. Please click here to find out more about the overall Waste Aware Scotland campaign.

Part of SWAG's role is to develop national waste aware tools, including the Waste Aware Business website. This site was proposed by the Scottish Government following a Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) survey on waste disposal in 2005, which highlighted a number of key issues for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) including:

Lack of awareness of local recycling facilities.
Lack of local recycling facilities in certain parts of the country.
Lack of storage space to collect large amounts of material for recycling.

The Business Recycling Directory aims to help to resolve the issue of lack of awareness of facilities for businesses by providing information on local and national reuse and recycling services from a variety of service providers.

The Waste Aware Business campaign is funded by the Scottish Government and has also been endorsed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA). In order to ensure that the website and tools have been developed with the end-user in mind, SWAG has worked closely with both businesses and the waste management industry whilst developing the website.

*Waste Aware Scotland is a programme of Keep Scotland Beautiful. Keep Scotland Beautiful is an operating name of Environmental Campaigns (Scotland). Scottish Charity Number SC030332.

The Waste Aware Business campaign is funded by the Scottish Government, as part of their commitment to a Greener Scotland. To find out more, or to pledge your support, please visit www.itsourfuture.co.uk

If you are interested in our organisation and would like to know more, please contact us and we will be happy to answer your questions.

Wallace House, 17-21 Maxwell Place,
Stirling, FK8 1JU
Tel: 01786 468 789 Fax: 01786 464 611