Our new report, released today (13 June), has found that a deposit return system (DRS) for non-alcoholic beverage containers, alongside improvements in the Blue Box program, would recycle an additional 118,000 tonnes of materials every year, as well as generating overall savings of $12 million. The report, Better Together: How [...]
Sign up to this webinar series to enter the discussion and contribute your views. We have been commissioned by UK Research & Innovation to develop a roadmap looking at future opportunities and needs for the UK plastics supply chain, supporting the transition to a circular plastics economy. This exercise is [...]
On the 8th April 2019 we celebrated the launch of our South East Europe Office, headquartered in Athens, Greece. The drinks and canape celebration took place at Aegli Zappiou in Athens, and was opened by the Greek Minister of Environment and Energy, Sokrates Famellos, who welcomed us to Greece. William [...]
We have developed a toolkit for Changing Markets Foundation which outlines measures that US state governments and manufacturers can implement to improve carpet reuse and recycling. Today only 5% of carpet in the US is recycled, with 90% going to landfill. Carpet is largely made of plastic from fossil fuels [...]
A new study, written by our policy team for WWF-UK and Resource Association, has recommended a levy on all virgin packaging to increase demand for recycled materials. The report was launched at a Parliamentary Reception, sponsored by DS Smith Recycling, on Tuesday 20th November 2018. ‘Demand Recycled: Policy Options for [...]
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 [...]
Next week our chairman Dominic Hogg and the Head of our New York office Sarah Edwards are presenting at the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)’s WASTECON in Nashville. The event will bring together leaders in the industry from waste management companies to government officials and policy makers to [...]
Our Head of Sustainable Business Mark Hilton is published in a new book examining the future of the circular economy with regards to business. Designing for the Circular Economy examines the impact a circular economy approach has on both business models and policy alike. Mark, an industry leader in the [...]
We are leading a consortium of six European consultancies in a major new study into how EU policy can improve the circular economy contributions of a range of product groups. The work is being undertaken on behalf of the European Commission’s DG Environment, which seeks to understand what policies it [...]
We have been appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers Waste Group (NWG) and the Swedish EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to analyse the existing regulatory framework for waste prevention and recycling currently applied in Nordic regions. The NWG and the Swedish EPA commissioned the research to understand better the effect [...]