Chamber and committees

Under the current pipeline of projects, contracted projects and applications in progress this year, Zero Waste Scotland is forecasting a spend of £4.58m.

To date the circular economy investment fund (CEIF) has attracted £5.4m of private investment into Scotland and a further £1 million of institutional investment. These investments are projected to support 218 jobs.

The total cost of the 2012 - 2013 pilot for Absorbent Hygiene Products was £311,706, of which £172,929 was distributed to the four participating councils as follows:

The Scottish Government is using a range of sources which are listed for each individual indicator on the Scottish Government’s Environment website: https://www.environment.gov.scot/our-environment/state-of-the-environment/ecosystem-health-indicators/

The full set of ecosystem health indicators were launched on 10 October 2017 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s ‘Scotland’s Biodiversity Conference’.

The number of young people aged 18 or under reported with three or more charges in a single case to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, in each of the last five years, is detailed on the following table. This information is not available at local authority level.

The Scottish Government and public bodies listed as “Major Players” under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 publish information on Adaptation in their Public Bodies Climate Change Reports which are available here:- https://sustainablescotlandnetwork.org/reports/ .

The Scottish Government holds 72 core property assets on its estate. Of these, 17 are owned and 55 are held on lease or occupancy agreements.

This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Government does not hold information on the number of arrests made by the police.

The Scottish Government does not hold information in relation to requirements for whole-life carbon footprinting or costing that are included in call off contracts from its framework agreements. The framework public body calling off from the framework agreement is responsible for setting any specific requirements in relation to environmental issues.

The Sustainable Procurement Duty requires public bodies to consider how they can improve economic, social and environmental wellbeing. To support this, Scottish Government has developed a number of tools that have been adopted for use by public bodies when developing their commodity/sourcing strategies. One of these tools is the Sustainability Test , which is designed to help embed relevant and proportionate sustainability requirements in the development of frameworks and contracts.

Scottish Procurement uses the Sustainability Test in all regulated procurements to assess whether environmental requirements are relevant and proportionate to the procurement. Some examples of where environmental requirements have been included are as follows:

1. General Stationery and Office Paper Framework – The supplier produces a yearly Environmental and Sustainability Report and has introduced a new system called “sign it, track it” which provides complete visibility of overall cost of deliveries and times (cost and quality of service) but also measures CO2 implications on deliveries. The supplier also reports on products that are environmentally friendly. Scottish Government includes a minimum order value to discourage low value orders that affect the environment.

2. Desktop and Mobile Devices Framework - All devices supplied under the framework meet or exceed minimum energy efficiency levels based on the latest Energy Star standards. Devices are also required to meet or exceed the Green Electronics Council’s EPEAT Gold compliance standard which requires devices to be manufactured to meet specific sustainability criteria that address the the full product lifecycle, from design and production to energy use and recycling.

The Scottish Government (SG) utilises condition based monitoring and maintenance in all its buildings. There are 72 core property assets on its estate. Of these, 17 are owned and 55 are held on lease or occupancy agreements.

All major ICT infrastructure and SG fleet vehicles are maintained in accordance with manufacturers’ guidelines.

Individual public bodies maintain their own assets. This information is not held centrally.