This Summer the Zero Waste Town Project team has been out and about with our portable recycle bins to events and places in our Ward area. Whilst diverting rubbish to landfill by recycling we have also worked with all ages to raise awareness about recycling and started to ask the community to map where they think permanent recycle bins should be placed.

Before the holidays began we started working with the local schools in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward and carried out waste audits to give them a base line measurement of how much rubbish they produce so they can then work to find ways to reduce the weight over this next year. We also helped to fund Innerwick Primary School’s Scrap Pay Pod.

Through ‘recycling on the go’ and the waste audits carried out over the last two months the Zero Waste Dunbar and District team has spread the word about the aims of the project (with hundreds of people of all ages) while diverting 29.350 KG of waste from landfill to be recycled.