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 [...]
Bristol City Centre BID (Business Improvement District) is entering into a partnership with Veolia to deliver a new waste collection service to city centre businesses. We supported the tender process by designing a competitive bidding process which looked at both price and quality of service. Bristol City Centre BID is [...]
Two of our Senior Consultants Harriet Parke and Emma Tilbrook have won a 35 under 35 award, part of a programme organised by letsrecycle.com in partnership with Grundon, which identifies ‘young guns’ in the sector who are striving for professional excellence, promoting industry innovation and giving back to their company, [...]
Senior Consultant Harriet Parke and our Managing Director Mike Brown will be attending IFAT 2018, the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. Harriet will be a featured speaker at the conference, representing the RDF Industry Group – for which Eunomia acts as secretariat – while [...]
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 [...]
We have been working with a consortium to develop a waste management training programme for the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment (MARDE) of the Republic of Cyprus. Cyprus is currently recycling around 28% of its waste and is highly dependent on landfilling, but has set ambitious targets of [...]
A recycling facility designed with our support on behalf the London Borough of Hounslow and its local authority trading company Recycle 360 has been shortlisted in the Health & Safety Initiative Category of the MRW 2018 National Recycling Awards for its fire safety measures. The Southall Lane Depot has been [...]
The Scottish Government has commissioned us to review, model and analyse options for a Scottish specific Aggregate Levy. The UK Aggregates Levy, introduced in 2002, is an environmental tax on aggregates (sand, gravel and rock) that have been dug from the ground, dredged from the sea or imported – usually [...]
Powys Council has been awarded our Recycling Carbon Index trophy for being the best recycler in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions saved through its efforts in 2015/2016. The result, revealed in our latest Recycling Carbon Index, saw the Welsh authority overtake Cheshire West and [...]
The issue of marine plastic pollution has been gaining increasing traction in the news and Eunomia has been advising the media on the scale of the problem while recommending policy solutions throughout – here we round-up a snapshot of our influence so far. Our modellers have been working with the [...]