Hugo Tagholm and Martin Dorey joined our river and marine litter experts Alice Thomson and Amy Slack in Bristol on Tuesday 4th December to discuss how to tackle the plastic pollution in our rivers and seas. We hosted the event, ‘How Can we Stop the Flow of Plastics from Rivers [...]
The Welsh Government is considering options to tackle the problems associated with food and drink packaging, in line with the principles of Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR). The Welsh Government has identified that the everyday litter seen across cities, towns and the countryside is having a negative impact on both the [...]
Our Zero Waste Cup scheme attracted the attention of event organisers, conference producers, and businesses large and small at the National Exhibition Centre for the NEC’s Resources and Waste Management conference on the 12th and 13th September 2018. We set up the Zero Waste Cup scheme in partnership with the NEC’s [...]
We are sponsoring and running the first ever conference coffee cup deposit refund scheme (DRS) on at this September’s RWM (Resource and Waste Management Conference) held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham. Launched in partnership with the NEC’s catering arm, Amadeus, under the scheme all food and beverage retailers [...]
We have been commissioned by the Institut Cirkulární Ekonomiky (INCIEN) and beverage company Mattonito design and model a deposit return scheme (DRS) for disposable beverage containers in the Czech Republic. Currently, over 12 million single-use plastic beverage containers are bought in the Czech Republic each year. The country’s current general [...]
On World Environment Day, marked on the 5th of June, the UN Environment Programme launched the latest policy document outlining action to tackle plastic pollution caused by single-use items. Our Chairman Dominic Hogg was one of the peer reviewers for the new report. The report, Single-Use Plastics: A Roadmap for [...]
Deposit Refund Schemes (DRS) have always been a key part of our work, and have become even more relevant with the recent interest in the area. With countries across Europe aiming for more ambitious recycling targets and assessing how they can help tackle marine litter, and some beverage companies looking [...]
On Saturday 24th March 2018 at 8.30pm, also known as Earth Hour, the World Wildlife Fund launched a report we developed that summarises available data on single use plastic consumption and waste management in the UK, both historic trends and future projections, and considers the UK’s performance relative to other [...]
