Edinburgh Sustainability Jam BlueBerry Jam Consultancy Alex Koehier Will Ma Qifeng Li Li Sun Muxi Yang
Scotland 22,000 tonnes of plastic drinks per year If separate for recycling it could be worth around £6 million Low Recycling rate currently 23 Scottish council (32 in Total) failed to meet a target to recycle half of all wastes by 2013
Sustainable Life Style Less bottle & cans in landfill and nature less carbon footprint Encourage individual behaviour to build more sustainable society
Scotland Zero Waste Programme Innovative ‘Recycle and Reward’ Schemes’ 10 million budget for 2014/2015 provide waste and recycling collections for businesses
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Buying drinks City Council Personal Green Credits Recycling Machine 10p 10p Coupon Mechanism (1) Carbon Offset Certificate
Buying drinks City Council Personal Green Credits Recycling Machine 10p 15p Coupon Mechanism (2) Carbon Offset Certificate 5p Coupon
Encourage more commercial Involvement Benchmarking Methodology Develop the platform which show the information for the organisation in Scotland to show how environment friendly are they. Green Credit for people
Standard Supermarket, University, Hotel, Transportation Centre, Stadium Visitor Flow Rate/Sales Revenue lorry route Past Green performance Business Activity location
Benefits Government: meet emission target Private retailers: increase sales Community: less litter Customers: coupons Disadvantages Not sustainable because government funded
Future Bottle deposit system customers are getting used to it infrastructure in place More resources paper, cardboard, batteries, other plastic
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Blueberry The company with the automatic recycling machine could get the carbon offset certificate More competitive Better Reputation Increase Sales People get green credit when they bring the bottle back