We have been working with a consortium to develop a waste management training programme for the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (MARDE) of the Republic of Cyprus. Cyprus is currently recycling around 28% of its waste and is highly dependent on landfilling, but has set ambitious targets of [...]
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Our Plastics in the Marine Environment infographic showing the sources and destinations of marine plastics has provided the inspiration for a 14 square metre information panel at the Miramare Marine Reserve in Trieste, Italy. The panel has been installed at the reserve’s WWF-managed visitor centre to educate visitors on the [...]
A recycling facility designed with our support on behalf the London Borough of Hounslow and its local authority trading company Recycle 360 has been shortlisted in the Health & Safety Initiative Category of the MRW 2018 National Recycling Awards for its fire safety measures. The Southall Lane Depot has been [...]
The Scottish Government has commissioned us to review, model and analyse options for a Scottish specific Aggregate Levy. The UK Aggregates Levy, introduced in 2002, is an environmental tax on aggregates (sand, gravel and rock) that have been dug from the ground, dredged from the sea or imported – usually [...]
A new Eunomia report reveals how the UK consistently overestimates how much of the plastic packaging waste it produces gets recycled. Official statistics say that in 2015 UK households and businesses produced 2.26m tonnes of plastic packaging waste. Almost 39% was claimed to have been recycled, well above the current [...]
Powys Council has been awarded our Recycling Carbon Index trophy for being the best recycler in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions saved through its efforts in 2015/2016. The result, revealed in our latest Recycling Carbon Index, saw the Welsh authority overtake Cheshire West and [...]
Our Sustainable Business team has been working with US-based multi-stakeholder not-for-profit organisation ReFED on two new guides designed to help the restaurant and food service industries reduce up to 16m tons of food waste, the equivalent of 1.5 billion meals a year. Not-for-profit ReFED led the development of the guides [...]
The issue of marine plastic pollution has been gaining increasing traction in the news and Eunomia has been advising the media on the scale of the problem while recommending policy solutions throughout – here we round-up a snapshot of our influence so far. Our modellers have been working with the [...]
Derry City and Strabane District Council, Northern Ireland, has approved a strategy developed by Eunomia aimed at developing a Zero Waste Circular Economy. The strategy is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, and brings together the principles of Zero Waste and the Circular Economy. The strategy aims both [...]
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published a Eunomia report investigating the total costs to businesses of investing in energy efficiency measures. The UK Government’s Clean Growth Strategy aims to help protect the climate and environment while increase productivity, creating jobs, and boosting earning power. Central [...]
