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 [...]
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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 [...]
We have recruited five new consultants, including industry veteran, Duncan Oswald, who joins as Senior Consultant in Scotland. Duncan has 25 years’ experience in the industry, and is now part of Eunomia’s growing resource efficiency team. He previously managed Ecodyn Ltd, which he founded in 2000. Duncan’s experience and network [...]
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a network of the world’s largest cities working to address climate change, has hosted a Eunomia webinar on the important role waste management has to play in the transition to a low carbon future. Eunomia Chairman Dr Dominic Hogg and Principal Consultant Ann Ballinger offered [...]
Eunomia is supporting Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (Bristol City Centre 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 centre. Bristol City Centre BID has today asked commercial waste collectors to [...]
