This report, launched at the RWM exhibition on Tuesday 13th September, was commissioned by Suez and shows that more than £9 billion could be added to the UK economy by integrating circular economy principles into the country’s emerging industrial strategy. It is the first comprehensive assessment of the long-term direction [...]
This report commissioned by WRAP examines the carbon impacts of different recycling services used by local authorities in Wales, and compares the performance of kerbside sort, co-mingled and two stream systems. This report also considers the climate change benefits of recycling activities in 2014-2015 and compares this to the benefits that [...]
The 4th edition of our Recycling Carbon Index shows that the CO2 emissions savings from local authorities’ waste and recycling services in 2014/15. Tthe leading carbon savers are Cheshire West and Chester Council, whose high recycling rate and source separated collection system (which minimises the need for energy-intensive sorting of [...]
Eunomia undertook analysis in support of the policy options included in the European Commission’s revised circular economy package published in December 2015. This final report was published by the Commission and includes detailed analysis and consideration of various aspects of the proposed package, including: The costs and benefits of the [...]
Zero Waste Scotland commissioned Sustainable Procurement Ltd as project lead, and Eunomia as sub-contractor, to develop this procurement guidance document to support circular economy purchasing decisions and outcomes across the Scottish public sector. Scottish Government policy makes increasing the supply and demand for circular products and services a key priority. In [...]
This report explains the information sources and analysis underlying Eunomia’s marine plastics infographic, Where do they come from? Where do they go? The infographic brings together some of the key findings from its recent research on this subject and includes a new estimate of annual global emissions of primary microplastics. [...]
In addition to updating the picture for the UK, Eunomia’s tenth issue of its Residual Waste Infrastructure Review examines the balance between residual waste and treatment capacity across 11 European countries. All of these countries are actively involved in trading RDF or SRF with others within the group. Facilities across [...]
This study, funded by Olleco and commissioned by the Renewable Energy Association, examines the net costs of introducing measures to mandate source separation of biowaste by councils and businesses in England. The aim of a mandatory requirement to separate biowaste would be to greatly increase the extent of separate collections. [...]
In September 2015, Eunomia was commissioned by the Welsh Government to review the Collections Blueprint in light of new evidence arising since its publication. The aim of the project was to review emerging evidence to establish if the Collections Blueprint remained the best option for a waste management service across [...]
This study, commissioned by the environmental charity Fidra, explores a number of issues relating to plastic pellet emissions from facilities in the UK. The pellets, sometimes known as nurdles, are lentil-sized particles of plastic that are used as feedstock for the manufacture of plastic products. Fidra and other organisations have found [...]