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  • Zero Waste Scotland: Circular Economy Accelerator Grants

    Created: 16/10/2025
    News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
    This item will show under the following categories: Climate/Environment  

    Zero Waste Scotland is Scotland’s Circular Economy Body. Their strategic aim is to rewire Scotland’s economic system, increasing the uptake in business adopting or applying circular economy practices and, in turn, driving a reduction of our consumption of natural resources through increased circularity.

    As part of their ongoing programme of support, grant funding is available to early-stage projects potentially capable of delivering at scale or delivering interventions with the potential to be replicated across a sector, industry or region.

    Projects must also align with one or more of the following objectives:

    • Help people care by advocating for change and demonstrating how we can do it. Projects will deliver activity to increase society’s demand for circular practices through stimulating the development and uptake of technologies, products and services to support a circular economy in Scotland.  
    • Make circularity easier and do more where it matters most by identifying and addressing the conditions supporting circularity in Scotland. Through encouraging the collaboration of organisations across value chains, including enterprises and academia, projects will implement circular economy strategies, principles and practices in high-impact sectors
    • Improve the infrastructure needed to accelerate the adoption of circular economy practices by keeping materials in use in Scotland’s economy through using less, using for longer, using again, and/or switching to regenerative material use. Projects will support the creation of valuable markets to optimise materials management and processing in Scotland.

    Who can apply?

    • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are registered with Companies House and meet the UK Government’s definition of an SME2.
    • Large organisations
    • Registered third sector organisations (including legally constituted organisations, registered charities, foundations, trusts, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and cooperatives); that conform to the UK Government’s definition of an SME3.  
    • Public sector bodies and organisations (publicly funded bodies such as councils, academic institutions

    How to apply

    To apply e-mail [email protected] for an application form and supporting guidance document.

    You can apply at any time. 




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