LoginFalkirk TS praised for recycling scheme
A new scheme recycles items that have been seized by Trading Standards teams
Posted 10 January 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|Scotland
UPDATES: Falkirk Trading Standards' award-winning recycling initiative gives seized counterfeit goods a new purpose, diverting materials to charities and community projects instead of landfill.
Falkirk Council Trading Standards has introduced an innovative new scheme to reuse and recycle confiscated items – and the initiative has won praise in the Scottish Parliament.
Under the scheme, counterfeit clothes seized by the service are rebadged and distributed to a national charity, rubber from fake trainers is reused to make children’s playground equipment, and unsafe electrical ite...
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