Under recent changes in EU law, producers of packaging will be required to fund fully the costs of recycling their waste. A report by Eunomia for the European Commission makes recommendations regarding how producers should be charged so that those whose packaging or products perform poorly against a set of [...]
WWF Greece has appointed us to carry out a study on the key policy measures and actions required to drive plastic pollution solutions across the country. Building on a related WWF project from 2019 – Plastic pollution in Greece: How to Stop It – A Practical Guide for Policy Makers [...]
We have appointed industry expert Gavin Bailey to lead our new service area – Sustainable Future Transport. Gavin joins us after managing the business development for the Transportation, Sustainability and Operations group at TRL. He is a specialist in the development of environmentally and economically sustainable freight, fleet and supply [...]
We have won a bid to undertake a Defra-funded research project investigating the development of models for farmer and land manager behaviours and decision-making. The UK’s exit from the European Union, and subsequent withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), will give the UK the ability to design and implement [...]
We have been appointed by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) to work alongside the Commonwealth Litter Programme (CLiP) in Belize to undertake a global review of current restrictions on single use plastic (SUP) items. In April 2019 the Belizean government moved to ban single use plastics [...]
We are very pleased to announce that no less than 14 new starters are joining us over the summer months, representing both seasoned experts and those entering the environmental field for the first time. Radha Daniel, who has ten years of waste management and circular economy project experience and is [...]
A new report, published by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Environment, estimates that the cost to EU Member States of not implementing environmental law in 2018 was around €55 billion. This is the result of Member States not fully achieving the targets set out by EU environmental legislations [...]