This report for the Welsh Government identifies the options for extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes to tackle end of life management issues, including litter and plastic pollution, associated with key food and drink packaging. The aim of this research was to outline a range of options for the implementation of [...]

This project completed a pilot trial of a social prescription on the upper reaches of the Bristol Frome, in the South Gloucestershire region. ‘Social prescribing’ refers to the range of non-medical referral options, such as nature-based interventions, that medical professionals can use alongside existing treatments to improve health and wellbeing. [...]

DG Environment commissioned us to lead a consortium to undertake a ‘Study to Identify Member States at Risk of Non-compliance with the 2020 target of the Waste Framework Directive’. This project came under the Waste Framework Directive‘s Early Warning System, which requires the European Commission to develop Early Warning Reports [...]

This independent report examines whether the UK system is really as effective in promoting the recycling of plastic packaging as official figures suggest. The analysis strongly suggests that it is not. Official statistics say that in 2015, UK households and businesses generated 2.26m tonnes of plastic packaging waste. This number [...]

This report commissioned by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency estimates the quantity of plastic packaging waste generated in Kenya each year, it is also available on their website here. The study makes estimates based on the consumption of plastic packaging using national statistics for manufacturing, trade and production. As plastic [...]

Investigating options for reducing releases in the aquatic environment of microplastics emitted by products [...]

We provided the technical content for this guide developed by ReFED, a multi-stakeholder nonprofit committed to reducing the $218 billion of food waste in the United States. The guide offers a template for restaurants to develop and embed a food waste reduction culture throughout their operations, and extend it to the consumer. Key [...]

We provided the technical content for this guide developed by ReFED, a multi-stakeholder nonprofit committed to reducing the $218 billion of food waste in the United States. The foodservice industry, as defined by the guide, consists of businesses that provide food for client organizations, including those in healthcare, corporate, and educational [...]

This document provides the information required to submit a successful final tender for the Bristol City Centre BID commercial waste contract. Eunomia produced this document as part of a managed tender process, supporting Bristol City Centre BID to secure a high quality, low cost waste collection service for businesses in [...]

Eunomia’s Head of Environmental Policy and Economics, Chris Sherrington, contributed to this report published by the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee in December 2017. The report considers the environmental and financial impacts associated with the 5.5 billion plastic bottles that are landfilled, littered or incinerated in the UK each [...]