Past Projects

Towards Zero Waste Communities Project

Between October 2008 and March 2011, RoWAN secured Scottish Government’s INCREASE III funding for a “Towards Zero Waste Communities Project” to expand our successful waste awareness work in Ross-shire.

Working with Alness, Dingwall, Inverness, Invergordon, Tain and Ullapool communties, RoWAN focused on activities to encourage more householders, schools and businesses to take on board the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” message. Using pledging as a tool to aid behaviour change become an important focus and research aspect of this project.

See final reports on use of pledging to encourage people to take action and on the use waste audits in schools.

Master Composter Project

RoWAN gained funding from WRAP Scotland (now Zero Waste Scotland) in September 2008 for the Master Composter Project, part of a national programme to support home composting and volunteering. The project recruited and supported a network of trained Master Composter volunteers across Ross and Cromarty, and promoted home composting at a series of community events. From September 2009 the network of volunteers was expanded to include Inverness City.

See report for Sept 2008 to March 2011.

Waste Free Household

In November 2002, RoWAN's Waste Free Households project was launched with the support of external funding. The project objective was to provide structured support to 100 volunteer households in a deliberate attempt to become as close to waste-free as possible, using the existing infrastructure.

Waste Free RCV

Building on the success of the Waste-Free Households project, RoWAN undertook a second major venture - its Waste-Free RCV project. Based on the priniciples of the Waste-Free Households project, RoWAN worked closely with The Highland Council to offer a package of support to a much larger group of households in Ross-shire. The group represented the population as a whole and was not self-selecting volunteers. This project aimed to help to achieve the targets set by the Highland Area and National Waste Plans in recycling, composting and landfill for the next 2-5 years.