4.6 Reuse and Refurbishment

There is significant opportunity to get value from waste materials through reuse and refurbishment. Successful reuse and refurbishment schemes can also provide employment opportunities. Barriers to facilitating reuse and refurbishment opportunities exist. The most common is the difficulty in making the connection between the waste producer and any potential users of the waste. Waste Exchange is a system where the waste of one individual can be considered the resource of another. Schemes of this type make connections between waste producers and potential users of the waste. While there are examples of waste exchanges operating in the UK, there are none currently in the Tayside area at present. It may be possible to establish a local service or link into a nationally developed service.