Sustainability

We support productions and workers in the film and TV industry to integrate sustainability into their work. You may already work within existing protocols by funders, broadcasters, green certification organisations such as albert. If not, please use Screen Scotland’s Sustainability in Production & Best Practice Guide. Their checklist is summarised here:

• Have an environmental statement and communicate to the team.
• Calculate the baseline energy and resource use.
• Commit to reducing, reusing and recycling.
• Provide paid training or shadowing opportunities to a local crew member.
• Support all crew to participate in training.
• Allocate or hire an environmental coordinator or runner.
• Ask for environmental and social responsibility policies of suppliers, broadcasters & distributors.
• Debrief with the film office after filming.

We are interested to follow your plans so please feel free to send us your environmental statement and your baseline energy and resource use calculations before and as part of a production debrief with us.

These resources may help:

• Bectu Vision padlet of resources: BECTU Vision: Sustainable Screen Production in Scotland (padlet.com)
• FilmBang’s reuse hub: Reuse Hub – Film Bang

Screen Scotland’s guidelines suggest providing paid training or shadowing opportunities to a local crew member. We can help support this.

Please also follow the Outdoor Access Code and also respect conservation agreements that may be in place.