Strengthening approach to household recycling collection services: consultation analysis

Appendix B: Consultation Questions

Part One: Household Textile Collection

Q1a. Do you consider your current options for textile recycling to be efficient (Yes/No/Don’t Know)?

Q1b. Do you consider your current options for textile recycling to be accessible (Yes/No/Don’t Know)?

Q1c. If you do not consider your current options for textile recycling to be efficient and/or accessible, what improvements would you recommend? Please provide your answer here.

Q2. Do you believe household collection of textiles would provide benefits to householders (Yes/No/Don’t Know)?

Q3. What potential benefits do you consider household collection of textiles would provide to householders? Please provide your answer here.

Q4. Do you believe household collection of textiles should be a service supplied by local authorities (Strongly agree/Agree/Neither Agree or Disagree/Disagree/Strongly Disagree)? Extra note: A mandatory service would be a statutory requirement for all local authorities in Scotland to collect textiles separately as part of their waste collection services at household kerbsides. This may require a separate household recycling bin. Please provide your answer here.

Q5. If collections of textiles from households are not a service supplied by local authorities, do you think there should be a requirement for all local authorities to offer textile recycling through Household Waste Recycling Centres or other bring facilities (Yes/No/Don’t Know)? Please provide your answer here.

Q6. What is the estimated number of textile items you recycle/dispose of each year (1-5/ 6-15/16-30/31-50/Over 50/I do not recycle my textiles/Don’t know)?

Q7. What services are currently available in your local authority area to recycle or dispose of textiles (Local Textile Bank – Supermarket or Car Park/ Charity Shops - In Store /Charity Shops – Household Collection/ Household Waste Recycling Centre)?

Q8. What services do you currently use in your local authority area to recycle or dispose of textiles (Local Textile Bank – Supermarket or Car Park/ Charity Shops - In Store /Charity Shops – Household Collection/ Household Waste Recycling Centre/ Other)? If other, please provide your answer here.

Q9. Do you foresee any barriers or unintended consequences to local authority collection of textiles at the kerbside becoming a statutory service (Yes/No/Don’t Know)? Please provide your answer here.

Q10. If your local authority offered household collection of textiles, how likely are you to utilise this service (Very likely/ Somewhat likely/ Somewhat unlikely/ Very unlikely/ Not sure)?

Q11. Do you have any additional views, regarding household collection of textiles or what you would expect a useful service to look like? Please provide your answer here.

Part Two: Rural Food Waste Exemption

Q1. Are you located in an area with a rural food waste exemption (Yes/No/Don’t Know)?

Q2. What is your preferred approach to the rural food waste exemption in the future (Keep it as it is/ Remove it/ Other)? If other, lease provide your answer here.

Q3. If your local authority were to offer a kerbside food waste collection service, would you be likely to opt-in (Very likely/ Somewhat likely/ Somewhat unlikely/ Very unlikely/ Not sure)?

Q4. If you live or operate a business in an area in which the rural food waste exemption is used, what do you currently do with your food waste (At home composting/ Take it to local recycling centre/ Other)? If other, please provide your answer here.

Q5. Do you have any other views regarding the rural food waste exemption? Please provide your answer here.

Part Three: Assessing the Impact of the Proposal

Q1. Equality: Are there any additional likely impacts the proposals contained in this consultation may have on particular groups of people, with reference to protected characteristics? Please provide your answer here.

Q2. Business and Regulation: Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to increase or reduce the costs and burdens placed on any business or sector? Please provide your answer here.

Q3. Children's Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment: Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to have an impact on children’s rights and wellbeing? Please provide your answer here.

Q4. Islands Communities Impact Assessment: Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to influence an island community significantly differently from its effect on other communities in Scotland? Please provide your answer here.

Q5. Fairer Scotland Duty: Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to have an impact in relation to the fairer Scotland duty? Please provide your answer here.

Q6. Environment: Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to have an impact on the environment? Please provide your answer here.

Part Four: Final Comments

Q1. Do you have any other comments that you would like to make, relevant to the subjects of this consultation, that you have not covered in your answers to other questions? Please provide your answer here.