What was the Highland Community Waste Partnership?
The Highland Community Waste Partnership ran between April 2022 – March 2025. Funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund and coordinated by Keep Scotland Beautiful, this project brough together eight community groups in the Highlands to reduce waste and promote more sustainable consumption. To learn more about the project visit: www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/highlandcommunitywaste.
All the information on these pages was correct until the end of the Highland Community Waste Partnership project i.e. 31st March 2025, but is unlikely to be updated following that.
We were one of the founding partners of the Highland Community Waste Partnership.
Between April 2022 and March 2025, we worked together to reduce waste and build a movement for more sustainable consumption in the Highlands, by working across the following three key areas of waste:
Food Waste and Composing
Share and Repair
Packaging and Single Use items
Specifically, here at Lochaber Environmental Group we led on the following areas of work:
- Home composting and reducing food waste into landfill
- With support from Zero Waste Scotland, provided information and events to reduce food waste
- Provided signposting for community composting resources
- Worked with local businesses to reduce food waste and signposted them to support
- Increased the use of pre-loved, repaired and shared goods
- Provided signposting to advice and support on a range of waste reduction issues
In addition, we collaborated on a number of initiatives to help raise awareness, provide skills and know-how and change the way that we all consume, that is, buy, use and dispose of things.
Food Waste & Composting
Share & Repair
Packaging & Single Use
