Rewiring our relationship with resources through the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) is vital for the EU to continue to innovate and lead the world in reaching a circular economy by 2040. These are the findings of a White Paper published today by Handelens Miljøfond, Minderoo Foundation, TOMRA, and Zero Waste [...]
The United Nations published its Sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report this week which summarised the impact and consequences human activity is having on our climate. As governments, businesses, media and the public react, we asked our Principal Consultant and local Councillor in her corner of Devon, Debbie [...]
On the day of the G7 Summit in Cornwall (11th June), our climate emergency specialist Alex Massie applauded commitments by the G7 to tighten climate targets, and halt funding for fossil-fuel burning activity in low-income countries. But he also wants to raise the alarm that some routes to stop rising [...]
Eunomia has convened a consortium to explore the costs of, and potential measures to prevent, fires which are being started by Lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries in waste. Fires in waste electronics are estimated to be growing: the incidence of fires in waste company Veolia’s refuse trucks are up 37.5% since 2017, [...]
Eunomia is pleased to announce it will be providing technical support to Zero Waste Scotland and the National Bed Federation to assess Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) approaches to improve the circularity of mattress production and waste management in Scotland. Due to the bulky size and mix of products within a [...]
Eunomia recently published a study for the European Commission offering recommendations on how EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) schemes should operate – a policy approach where producers take financial responsibility for the end of life management of products. The research reviews the French EPR scheme for end-of-use clothing, linen, and shoes – the [...]
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 [...]
New research has found that possible exemptions to the EU’s Single Use Plastic Directive potentially open the legislation to loopholes which could significantly undermine its impact. Our research found that certain ‘natural polymers’ could be exempted under the Directive’s definition of plastic, including those likely to have similar negative effects [...]
Our North America office has seen huge growth in the eighteen months since it opened its doors, delivering high-level, influential projects across the US and Canada – and expanding by 200%, with further recruitment planned to accommodate the growing portfolio of work. North American municipalities and businesses are beginning to [...]
Nordic nations require a significant increase in recycling in order to meet the revised EU recycling targets, despite the region including some of the most developed and mature waste management systems in Europe. Of the Nordic countries reporting their recycling rate to Eurostat, we found that an increase of between [...]