Our North America office has seen huge growth in the eighteen months since it opened its doors, delivering high-level, influential projects across the US and Canada – and expanding by 200%, with further recruitment planned to accommodate the growing portfolio of work. North American municipalities and businesses are beginning to [...]
We have been appointed by WWF Mozambique on behalf of the Regional Office for Africa to research the issue of plastic pollution from coastal nations in Africa and develop a Strategic Plan for addressing this. This will support the organisation’s goal of minimising plastic pollution across the continent by creating [...]
We have been appointed by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) to work alongside the Commonwealth Litter Programme (CLiP) in Belize to undertake a global review of current restrictions on single use plastic (SUP) items. In April 2019 the Belizean government moved to ban single use plastics [...]
The Highland Council has commissioned us to undertake a review of its commercial waste service in order to understand the opportunities for improvements in cost-efficiency and delivery. Located in the Scottish Highlands, the Highland Council area is the largest local government area in the UK. The council provides a large-scale [...]
Darebin City Council (DCC) in Melbourne, Australia were the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in December 2016. We have been appointed to help the council to determine what practical actions they can take to meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon that they currently emit through their [...]
We are working alongside Bureau Veritas (BV), AECOM and Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) to help Broxbourne Borough Council develop air quality plans. The European Ambient Air Quality Directives specify the concentration of air pollutants that are acceptable for air quality to be at a healthy level. Countries across Europe, including [...]
We have been appointed as the sole contractor for Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) in a two-year framework to carry out waste collection options appraisals for Scottish local authorities. ZWS is funded to support the delivery of the Scottish Government’s circular economy strategy – including an ambitious recycling target of 70% [...]
We are leading a consortium of six European consultancies in a major new study into how EU policy can improve the circular economy contributions of a range of product groups. The work is being undertaken on behalf of the European Commission’s DG Environment, which seeks to understand what policies it [...]
We have been commissioned by the Institut Cirkulární Ekonomiky (INCIEN) and beverage company Mattonito design and model a deposit return scheme (DRS) for disposable beverage containers in the Czech Republic. Currently, over 12 million single-use plastic beverage containers are bought in the Czech Republic each year. The country’s current general [...]
We have been appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers Waste Group (NWG) and the Swedish EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to analyse the existing regulatory framework for waste prevention and recycling currently applied in Nordic regions. The NWG and the Swedish EPA commissioned the research to understand better the effect [...]
