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 [...]
A report for Zero Waste Scotland reviewing the potential for a range of community-level and community-led measures to prevent litter. The study draws upon existing case studies to consider a number of actions including: Maximising the litter prevention potential of litter picks; Motivating behaviour change through a range of incentives; [...]
Eunomia’s third annual Recycling Carbon Index Report shows that the CO2 emissions savings from local authorities’ waste and recycling services have improved markedly between 2012/13 and 2013/14 despite the levelling off of English recycling rate performance. Recycling by local councils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland saved more CO2 in [...]
A Clean Sweep sets out a series of measures to help prevent litter. The report focuses on using financial and other incentives to deter littering behaviour and encourage product innovation to make commonly littered items less problematic. The key measures proposed in A Clean Sweep are: Levies on chewing gum [...]
This study, undertaken by Eunomia Research & Consulting in conjunction with Professor Mikael Skou Andersen of Aarhus University and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), aims to evidence the potential economic and social benefits of environmental fiscal reform. Written to support the European Semester process on environmental protection and [...]
As part of its wider policy measures to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to meet UK, EU and Internationally agreed targets, the UK Government wishes to decarbonise heat generation in the UK, which is responsible for one third of UK GHG emissions. Under the EU Renewable Energy Directive 2009 [...]
