Including 5 closely related terms such as districts, district heat, and district heating.
… diet The council should accelerate the rollout of district heating wherever possible across the city The council should introduce a local ambassadors scheme for people to promote green jobs and skills in their communities 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The council, businesses and national government should subsidise and incentivise training for entering the green economy…
… and outside of the formal education system. 7 The council should establish a ‘circular economy district’ for Glasgow to help people to access reuse and repair outlets easily The council should expand the financial support that is available to households to decarbonise homes, for example in the form of tax incentives, grants and loans The council should repurpose derelict (uncontaminated) land…
… should establish a ‘circular economy district’ for Glasgow to help people to access reuse and repair outlets easily 9 3 Findings Initial reactions The expert presentations were well received, as informative and engaging, and members were surprised to learn the extent of waste in the current economy. While there was already some awareness of surplus food waste from retail and catering…
… into beer to ‘sustainable retail districts’11. Assembly members contributed additional examples, such as Pret A Manger’s food donations to homeless charities and the Too Good to Go mobile application which connects customers with retail and catering businesses with unsold surplus. Another example was a recent French law mandating that businesses have to donate excess food. For those who had heard…
… of physical infrastructure for implementing the ‘five Rs’ (e.g. repair shops); and the unaffordability of ‘green’ products for those on low incomes. 11 Described by Julie Robertson, Assistant Manager of Sustainable Glasgow at Glasgow City Council, in the Q&A as “A retail district where there would be a mix of high end to low scale small repairs, and it would have more of a traditional shopping…