Eunomia Research & Consulting is delighted to launch our inaugural Impact Report. It includes successes and highlights across consultancy work in the UK and across the globe. This spans policy work, local authorities, sustainable business and markets, the natural economy and climate change. The past year has been another period [...]
New report calls for urgent action to reduce material use in key industries Current Net Zero strategies in the materials production sectors are insufficient to meet climate targets Urgent action is needed to reduce material use in key industries to avoid unprecedented climate change, according to new research by [...]
Glass should be included in UK’s deposit return system to boost recycling Whitehall prompts concern from environmental campaign groups by proposing to exclude glass from deposit return system in England and Northern Ireland Only 43 percent of UK glass waste recycled with single-use container glass at 38 percent The UK [...]
Along with our partners environmental not-for-profit City to Sea, we have released a new report, which is the first of its kind in the UK, taking an in-depth look at the single-use packaging and disposables problem in the food-to-go sector, including cafes, fast food outlets and coffee chains in the [...]
Options for an environmental aggregates levy for Scotland which would continue to tax crushed rock, gravel and sand, have been explored by international environmental consultancy Eunomia in the report for the Scottish Government, Evidence Review and Illustrative Policy Options for a Scottish Aggregates Levy. Eunomia analysed the recycling rate of [...]
Eunomia has produced a UK plastics roadmap, Future Opportunities and Needs in the UK plastics Supply Chain, for UK Research & Innovation. The roadmap identifies ways that can help the transition to a circular plastics economy in the UK. This research was conducted under the Plastics Research and Innovation Fund [...]
Eunomia have produced the report, Policy Measures on Plastics in Greece for WWF Greece, outlining the key policy measures and actions to drive solutions to plastic pollution in Greece. This study builds on the findings of preceding work, Plastic pollution in Greece: How to Stop It – A Practical Guide [...]
Under recent changes in EU law, producers of packaging will be required to fund fully the costs of recycling their waste. A report by Eunomia for the European Commission makes recommendations regarding how producers should be charged so that those whose packaging or products perform poorly against a set of [...]
Mark Hilton, Head of Sustainable Business at the environmental consultancy Eunomia has over 35 years’ experience supporting businesses to become more resource-efficient. In a recently completed study for the European Commission Mark led on the development of recommendations for fee-modulation for electrical and electronic equipment and batteries. We asked Mark [...]
The results of the most comprehensive UK-wide waste composition study to date, which we undertook on behalf of WRAP, are now available through the WRAP website. The work provides comprehensive and detailed estimates of the quantities of different materials in the recycling and residual household waste streams across the whole [...]
