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  Rise in household waste being recycled in Scotland   More than 45% of the rubbish generated from people's homes in Scotland is being recycled, new figures showed. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency said 1.13 million tonnes of the waste was recycled in 2016, while a similar amount was sent to landfill. East Renfrewshire has become the first Scottish council to recycle more than 60% of household waste. However, 10 of Scotland's 32 local authority's actually reduced the amount they recycled compared with 2015. Full story at http://bbc.in/2foqj0S Source: BBC News   Bea Johnson: Queen of Zero Waste   When Bea Johnson decided to start blogging about her family’s new lifestyle, her husband warned her that she was opening herself up to a lot of criticism. “The New York Times ran an article about us in 2010. Back then people really didn’t know what our lifestyle meant,” Bea says. “They associated it with free-living in the woods and being a hippy;