The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Police Scotland and Glasgow City Council have welcomed the sentencing of Declan Clarke (30) at Glasgow Sheriff Court, for large-scale fly-tipping offences across the city, particularly in the Drumchapel and Gartloch areas.

Clarke was sentenced on Wednesday 8 June 2022 to 11 months imprisonment.

He originally pleaded guilty on Thursday, 21 April, 2022, after being accused of dumping more than 51 tonnes of tyres and household waste at a number of sites in June and October 2020.

Public Health Scotland has launched a new learning hub dedicated to challenging weight stigma.

The evidence base behind Clean Air Day, the UK’s largest campaign on air pollution by Global Action Plan, today reveals the weight of scientific evidence has strengthened, thereby allowing the organisation to publicly confirm for the first time that air pollution can impact every organ in the body. 

Food Standards Scotland have uploaded translated versions of their healthier catering guides on their website. 

As of 3 June 2022, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control had identified 392 confirmed and probable cases of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in EU and EEA countries and the UK. 122 cases have been confirmed in the UK.

This outbreak has been characterised by a high proportion of hospitalised cases (around 40%) and some cases having severe clinical symptoms, such as bloody diarrhoea.

Consultations on Circular Economy launched Proposals to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis by supporting Scotland’s transition to a zero waste and circular economy have been launched.

Discarded cigarette butts and disposable vaping products are having devastating impacts on Scotland’s beaches and waters, according to leading public health and environment representatives who are urging people in Scotland to bin the offending items and packaging after use.

Low Emission Zones (LEZs) to protect public health and improve air quality have now been formally introduced across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen.

Plans have been agreed at the local authority level and have now also been approved by Scottish Ministers, as required in legislation through the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019.

With the shape and scope of LEZs now agreed across the four cities through this introduction, local grace periods until enforcement commences have now begun.

Environmental Standards Scotland has been established as a new Non-Ministerial Office to scrutinise compliance with, and the effectiveness of, environmental law and standards in Scotland, now that we have left the European Union.

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to implement a ban on many of the most problematic single-use plastics. The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 come into force on 1 June 2022.