Waste & Resources
Investment decisions in waste and recycling depend on assumptions about feedstock, capacity, pricing, regulation and end-market demand. These factors are increasingly interconnected and can change materially over the life of an asset. We help clients test these assumptions through independent market assessment and transaction due diligence.
Waste and recycling investments rarely succeed based on financial analysis alone.
Success depends on understanding the markets that underpin asset performance: where material will come from, how competition will evolve, how regulation will shape markets and where future demand will emerge. Investors need more than a snapshot of today's market. They need confidence in how it is likely to develop over the years ahead.
Eunomia provides independent market intelligence and commercial due diligence to investors, developers, operators, and market entrants. Combining deep sector expertise with a unique understanding of the policies shaping circular economy markets, we help clients identify test transaction assumptions, identify material risks, validate investment theses and make confident decisions in rapidly evolving markets.
Our approach to market assessment and transaction due diligence in the waste and resources sector
For more than 25 years, Eunomia has worked across the waste and resources value chain, supporting investors, operators, developers and public-sector organisations across a wide range of materials and geographies. Our experts have delivered market assessments and commercial due diligence to support acquisitions, disposals, investment decisions and infrastructure development for a range of materials including plastics, organics, residual waste and others, across the UK, Europe, North America, and beyond.
What differentiates Eunomia is our position at the intersection of markets and policy. Alongside advising industry and investors, we work extensively with the UK Government, the European Commission, local authorities and national governments worldwide. This gives us a unique perspective on the regulatory and policy developments that influence market dynamics, material flows, infrastructure requirements and long-term commercial performance of assets and businesses.
Combining this insight with robust market evidence, industry expertise and proprietary analysis, we deliver clear, independent advice throughout the investment and transaction process; from early market assessment and target screening to red-flag review, detailed due diligence and transaction close. Eunomia brings together insights from our circular, low carbon, and natural economy teams, offering a variety of services for the waste and resources value chain.
We can support you with
- Commercial due diligence for acquisitions, investments and disposals
- Buy-side and sell-side transaction support
- Red-flag reviews and full commercial due diligence
- Waste, recycling and secondary materials market assessments
- Market forecasting and investment opportunity evaluation
- Target screening and strategic market mapping
- Feedstock availability, ownership and competition analysis
- Gate fee, pricing and revenue assessments
- Competitor benchmarking and market positioning analysis
- Assessment of regulatory and policy risks and opportunities
- Market entry and growth strategy development
- Commercial support for new facilities, infrastructure projects and material ventures
- Support through diligence, negotiation and transaction close
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