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Automotive

The automotive industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. OEMs and suppliers face mounting pressure to decarbonise vehicles and supply chains, eliminate hazardous materials, and comply with rapidly tightening regulations, from recycled content mandates to digital product passports, while continuing to deliver performance, scale, and profitability. These are challenges we can support you with.

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Delivering this transition is complex.

It requires decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing, securing reliable supplies of high-quality recycled and low-impact materials, redesigning vehicles for circularity, and reconfiguring deeply embedded global supply chains.

These challenges are compounded by cost pressures, evolving regulatory uncertainty, and still-maturing infrastructure for collection, sorting, and high-value recycling and remanufacturing.

Our approach with automotive OEMs and suppliers

Eunomia supports automotive OEMs and supply chain partners to turn regulatory and sustainability ambition into practical, investable strategies. We combine deep policy insight with market modelling and supply-chain expertise to support decisions on materials, sourcing, and system design.

Our work bridges the gap between policy and delivery, helping clients interpret complex regulation, assess material availability and cost trajectories, design circular supply chains, and develop procurement and infrastructure strategies that are compliant and commercially viable.

The result is credible, scalable pathways to low-carbon, circular vehicle systems.

We can support you with

Automotive sustainability and circularity benchmarking
Waste and resource management strategy
Strategic roadmaps for automotive circular materials
Carbon reporting and compliance, net zero and scope 3 decarbonisation
Product Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs)
Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) compliance
ELV regulation strategy and compliance roadmaps
ELV plastics strategy (dismantling vs shredding, polymer pathways)

Material availability, cost, and price modelling
Vehicle and portfolio recycled-content modelling
Automotive plastics material flow analysis
Supplier and recycling ecosystem mapping
Recycled plastics procurement strategy
Closed-loop automotive plastics systems
Recycling infrastructure and investment analysis

Our experts

Alex Forrest

Managing Consultant

Alex brings 20+ years of experience in environmental management, consulting & project delivery. He’s honed his skills during previous roles across the UK, Europe & Australasia.

United Kingdom

Sarah Edwards

North America Director and Private Lead

Leading private sector growth in Europe & North America, Sarah specialises in circular economy principles. She works with diverse clients to mitigate their environmental & social impacts.

United States

Richard Waters

Head of Strategy

Richard is Head of Strategy and leads our London office. He supports our private and public sector clients with strategic responses to the risks and opportunities of climate change and biodiversity loss.

United Kingdom

Case studies

DESNZ & Defra – Unlocking resource efficiency

Eunomia, working in consortium with WSP and the University of Leeds, led a programme of research to identify resource efficiency measures for UK industrial sectors and understand their associated challenges and opportunities. The findings are being used to update modelled emissions savings potential for resource efficiency, feeding into the Government’s modelling of carbon budget delivery pathways and informing the development of its Government’s Circular Economy Strategy.