Circular Charter Progress and Hosting’s   Hi , With the third month of a new year around the corner we are actively trying to jumpstart businesses in the Dundee & Tayside region in their journey to becoming net zero with the Circular Tayside team. February has been a month for us to make deeper connections […]

Post-COP26, Ambassadors meeting & new Ambassadors 💚 Hi , With the aftermath of COP26 companies are eager to adjust their business practice and adopt more eco-friendly schemes. November has been an active beginning setting motion for our planet goals of the COP26 plans, while having lots of conversations about what will happen next!   The […]

A new phase for the Circular Tayside team Hi , Over the Summer, Vaso finished up her work with Circular Tayside, and we welcomed two new recruits to the team:   Amber Farquhar joins as Circular Tayside Officer & Austin Parley comes in as Circular Tayside Administrator.   In September we were busy getting the project work together […]

Hi , This snowy February has been very busy for Circular Tayside.  We have been piloting the Circular Tayside Charter with a local reuse organisation and it has been going very well. We invite any local interested organisations to join us in the pilot- it takes little time and it can showcase your commitment to circularity and […]

Hi , From all of us here in Circular Tayside we wish you a happy 2021! May all the challenges and difficulties 2020 brought remain in the past, and may we start this year refreshed and renewed.   December was an active month for Circular Tayside. We kickstarted the month with an “Circular Economy and Agri-Food: […]

Hi , October has also been very busy for Circular Tayside. We started our month with our pilot Innovation Workshop with Zero Waste Scotland. A limited number of 5 local organisations joined the session where, after being introduced to the concept of circular economy, we went over the Knowledge Transfer Network’s Innovation Canvas, followed by a […]

Hi , August came and went pretty fast, with most of us at the beginning, middle or end of our annual leave. One local organisation however kept busy and opened its doors to the public, making a great impression to locals and anyone else who visited their brand new premises. We are of course referring […]

Going back to “normal” This week we received the long awaited news of coming out of the lock down, slowly and steadily, one step at a time. Priority is given to key workers and companies, with the others following in weekly increments. However, one thing that we learned from the recent increase in Covid-19 cases […]

Circular Economy and Lock-Down   Hi , We are officially in the 7th week of lock-down and all of us are experiencing new challenges, getting used to the old ones and trying to identify opportunities for when we come out of this situation. In our case, we delivered our Circular Office workshop online. There were […]

An eventful February   Hi , February was the Tay Cities Business Month and full of events. We kicked off the month with the Michelin Development Fund that will help local businesses with very beneficial loans and business advice. The month continued with a fantastic Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce and Dundee Council event on Construction, attended by major developers, […]

Hi , Happy new year from all of us from Circular Tayside. May 2020 bring even more inspiring change towards a circular economy in Tayside with businesses that invest in the ecological capital of the future generations!   We are a bit late with our monthly newsletter due to the holidays, but that doesn’t mean that […]

Hi , A month full of activity has gone by and what a month it has been! Thanks to Alison Henderson, Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce CEO and Vicki Unite, Perthshire Chamber of Commerce CEO, I was able to arrange meetings with several stakeholders, ambassadors and businesses.   We started the month dynamically by […]