Eunomia’s Local Authority Recycling Carbon Index is an alternative measure of the environmental performance of councils’ waste and recycling services. The Carbon Index supplements statistics on recycling rates by showing the CO2e savings that result from councils’ recycling efforts, giving a greater insight into the wider environmental performance of councils’ waste [...]
MMO has powers under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) to prepare marine plans covering the coastal waters of England. Marine plans guide those who use and regulate the marine area to encourage sustainable development while considering the environment, economy and society. MMO commissioned and designed the report to [...]
The Government introduced the ‘Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme’ (ESOS) as the UK’s way to implement Article 8 of the European Union Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). This requires Member States to establish an energy audit regime, under which all large (non-SME) enterprises must conduct an energy efficiency audit, initially by December [...]
This special report by Eunomia Research & Consulting issued ahead of the annual Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas (ADBA) conference suggests that the Anaerobic Digestion market has reached a ‘tipping point’ beyond which there is not currently sufficient feedstock being collected (from the food processing/manufacturing, household and commercial sectors) to support [...]
This guidance commissioned by WRAP is intended to help local authorities maximise the benefit that they obtain for the dry recyclables collected as part of their provision of waste services. It is designed to equip local authority officers with the knowledge required to select the right material sales strategy for [...]
The 7th issue of the Residual Waste Infrastructure Review was published on 27th November 2014, replacing the 6th Issue. [...]
The 7th issue of the Residual Waste Infrastructure Review was published on 27th November 2014, replacing the 6th Issue. [...]
The ‘Waste Regulations Route Map’ is a support tool prepared by Eunomia to help local authorities to assess their compliance with the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011, especially their obligations from January 2015. The Route Map was commissioned by a working group comprising members of local authority waste networks (coordinated [...]
This report, prepared for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) with support from the London South Bank University’s Centre for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Research, assessed the environmental impacts of leakage of refrigerants from within heat pumps. The study found that annual leakage rates from operation of heat [...]
This report, commissioned by the Environmental Services Association Education Trust, assesses the economic impact of waste crime to exceed £500m and puts forward recommendations for a joint approach to tackling it. These include: Increase and protect enforcement budgets to provide a minimum of: £25m for the Environment Agency; and £10m [...]
