A group of our consultants have completed an online course in Ecolinguistics, which is aimed at providing new ways of thinking about how ecological issues are presented in the media, academia, and beyond. The course culminated in a visit from its creator, Professor Arran Stibbe. Based on Professor Stibbe’s book [...]
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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 [...]
We are supporting St Albans Business Improvement District (BID) to procure a collaborative commercial waste contract, with the aim of securing a high quality, low cost waste collection service for businesses in the city. St Albans BID has asked commercial waste collectors to put forward proposals to improve the bin [...]
We have developed a toolkit for Changing Markets Foundation which outlines measures that US state governments and manufacturers can implement to improve carpet reuse and recycling. Today only 5% of carpet in the US is recycled, with 90% going to landfill. Carpet is largely made of plastic from fossil fuels [...]
Our Head of Environmental Policy and Economics, Dr Chris Sherrington, was commissioned by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF)’s China Programme to speak as part of an exchange of expertise on the design of policies to improve the management of plastics and microplastics. The exchange, which took place in the first [...]
On Tuesday 11 December 2018 we announced the opening of our new company, domiciled in Athens, Greece. Eunomia Research and Consulting IKE will be led from Athens by Hara Xirou, who has spent the last four years building our northern European presence as the Head of our Brussels office. One [...]
Hugo Tagholm and Martin Dorey joined our river and marine litter experts Alice Thomson and Amy Slack in Bristol on Tuesday 4th December to discuss how to tackle the plastic pollution in our rivers and seas. We hosted the event, ‘How Can we Stop the Flow of Plastics from Rivers [...]
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 launched our latest natural capital report, which was presented at the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership‘s Annual Forum, and provided new evidence that nature-based prescribing could result in savings for the NHS and improved water quality for all. We were commissioned by the Environment Agency to develop an evaluation [...]
