This report examines the potential for energy storage deployment in the UK, and provides the first forecast of its likely extent. The report, which focuses on battery technologies, also provides analysis of a range of electricity storage applications as investment propositions, together with figures on the level of deployment to [...]

This scoping study informed a route map for the city of London to transition to a Circular Economy – an economy that designs out waste. The final route map London The Circular Economy Capital is available online here. The study was commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and London Waste and Recycling Board [...]

The latest update to the Eunomia Residual Waste Infrastructure Review was issued on 27th December 2015. Eunomia’s Ninth Residual Waste Infrastructure Review maintains that the UK is still on course to exceed the waste infrastructure it will need in future. This is especially true if it is to achieve the [...]

This study, commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) elicits the views of the supply chain for large biomass installations in the non-domestic sector on the effectiveness of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The study forms part of a wider independent evaluation of the influential RHI which informs a government [...]

The report was commissioned by Zero Waste Europe, in partnership with Zero Waste France and ACR+. It highlights key problems with the current United Nations FCCC waste inventories, and provides recommendations as to how they can be improved. [...]

This report examines the issue of price fluctuation risk for Secondary Raw Materials (SRMs) and its impact on the UK recycling supply chain. Prepared for Resources & Waste UK, it reflects concerns regarding a general downward trend in SRM prices from the highs of 2011/12, a squeeze on contract margins for [...]

The Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Export Industry Group has today launched an RDF Report. This report has been prepared by Eunomia on behalf of the Group and examines the legal, environmental and economic rationales for RDF export. The considerable rise in exports, and Defra’s response (on 1st December 2014) to [...]

This guidance document is designed to help public bodies how procurement practice can be used to prevent waste they produce or collect from getting into the hands of waste criminals. This guidance was  commissioned by Zero Waste Scotland and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, and was based on consultation with stakeholders across [...]

The latest update to the Eunomia Residual Waste Infrastructure Review was issued on 22nd June 2015. Eunomia’s Eighth Residual Waste Infrastructure Review, out today, shows that the UK remains on track to exceed the required level of residual waste treatment capacity by 2019/20 (or by 2018/19 when export of RDF [...]

Eunomia undertook a review for Zero Waste Scotland examining the feasibility of introducing a deposit refund system (DRS) in Scotland for one-way beverage containers. The study found that none of the challenges posed by introducing a DRS was insuperable. The indicative financial costs for a Scottish DRS appear to be [...]