Plea to love your leftovers
Iain Stirling is backing the Good to Go scheme this Valentine’s Day Scottish comedian and Love Island star, Iain Stirling, is partnering up with Zero Waste Scotland this Valentine’s Day weekend to encourage the people of Perth to love their leftovers.
Every year, £200 million worth of food is wasted in Scotland’s hospitality sector, of which 34 per cent is estimated to be‘plate waste’– good food left over at the end of a meal.
As Perthshire hospitality businesses gear up for the year’s first seasonal busy spell, Iain is asking the people of Perth to consider if they are‘Good to Go’– the nationwide scheme that encourages restaurant-goers to take home their leftovers.
Zero Waste Scotland research suggests as many as 42 per cent of Perth diners are currently too shy to ask for a doggy bag.
It is hoped the campaign will make Scots think twice before dumping good food this Valentine’s.
Iain said:“People used to think you were‘cheap’if you asked for a doggy bag, but that’s changing.
“It’s no longer something your dad insists on, just because the place you’re eating has an obligatory service charge. I mean what’s not to love about saving the planet by eating tasty leftovers?” A man’s second attempt to get consent to use land in Errol to store and redistribute temporary shelters has seen his latest claims come under severe scrutiny.
Mike Stretch of Munro Estates Ltd only applied for proper consent to change the use of land at Inchcoonans from agricultural to commercial following a planning enforcement investigation, according to council documents.
But Mr Stretch’s first application seeking to “regularise” tenants Paragon Protection Systems Ltd using his land to store then redistribute so-called “Zappshelters” was refused last year after PKC concluded he had failed to provide any justification for the operation to be sited in such a rural location.
Now, in a second application he is seeking to persuade PKC the same land has actually been used for commercial purposes for years.
In a representation for PKC, Mr Stretch’s agent Montgomery Forgan Associates claims commercial landscape contracting businesses used the site as a base for 15 years before Paragon moved in.
The Cupar-based architect said: “The applicant bought the site some 15 years ago, and it has been used by two landscape contractor businesses until the current tenant occupied the site just over a year ago.
“A landscape contractors business called Growing Concerns (Scotland) Ltd occupied the site for about six years, and the site was then occupied by another landscape contractors business (Grass Engineering Ltd) for a further six years. Thereafter, the site was put on the market for rent or sale, with Paragon Protection Systems Ltd becoming tenants just over a year ago.
“Therefore, the site and storage shed have not been used for agricultural purposes for around 15 years, and instead have been used for the purposes of commercial landscape contracting businesses.”
But a Mr Peter Symon has said in an objection to Mr Stretch’s application: “The alleged existing use of the site is not at all consistent with other evidence, including