5.7 Linking to the National Plan

The Area Waste Plans describe the activities, key infrastructure needs and targets for each of the eleven Waste Strategy Areas in Scotland. The National Waste Plan for Scotland presents the aggregation of these eleven AWPs and describes the necessary activities to ensure waste arising in Scotland is managed in a sustainable manner. The National Waste Plan also sets out how Scotland will achieve the objectives of the Landfill Directive. The future development of both the National Waste Plan and Area Waste Plans are linked with actions being undertaken at both an area level and where appropriate at a national level. Together they provide the development programme to take forward the National Waste Strategy: Scotland at both a national and an area level.