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 supporting York Business Improvement District (BID) to procure a collaborative commercial waste contract. The aim is to secure a high quality, low cost waste collection service for businesses in the city. York BID has asked commercial waste collectors to put forward proposals to improve the bin collections that [...]
Councils collecting bulky waste could increase recycling by 1.5% and save £450,000 over five years, new measures from our Waste Prevention Toolkit have found. The new data comes from our updated Waste Prevention Toolkit (WPT), which is a set of tools built to help local authorities determine the impact of [...]
A new study, written by our policy team for WWF-UK and Resource Association, has recommended a levy on all virgin packaging to increase demand for recycled materials. The report was launched at a Parliamentary Reception, sponsored by DS Smith Recycling, on Tuesday 20th November 2018. ‘Demand Recycled: Policy Options for [...]
We recently completed a key report for the European Commission‘s Directorate-General for Environment, where we compiled action plans aimed at helping the fourteen Member States considered to be at greatest risk of missing the EU’s 2020 recycling targets. Following a review of all Member States progress towards the European Commission’s [...]
Powys Council has been awarded the Eunomia Recycling Carbon Index trophy for the second year running for being the best recycler in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions saved in 2016/17, our annual Recycling Carbon Index reveals. Published in September 2018, the Recycling Carbon [...]
We have just completed a review of a communications strategy to be used by Wokingham Borough Council when it rolls out its new household food waste collection service in 2019. The review, which was commissioned by WRAP, provided advice on the messaging strategy, target audiences and branding, and developed outline [...]
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 [...]
On World Environment Day, marked on the 5th of June, the UN Environment Programme launched the latest policy document outlining action to tackle plastic pollution caused by single-use items. Our Chairman Dominic Hogg was one of the peer reviewers for the new report. The report, Single-Use Plastics: A Roadmap for [...]
A new report commissioned by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), which we delivered alongside Capital Operating Partners, has estimated that around 174,000 tonnes of plastic packaging is either left in the environment, or taken to illegal dump sites, each year in Kenya. The final figures in the study, which [...]
