Our report with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has estimated that up to 10% of the Electronic and Electrical Equipment (EEE) bought on digital marketplaces in Europe avoid contributing to legislation designed to compensate for the environmental burden of these products. The sellers of products that avoid [...]
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 Eunomia report reveals how the UK consistently overestimates how much of the plastic packaging waste it produces gets recycled. Official statistics say that in 2015 UK households and businesses produced 2.26m tonnes of plastic packaging waste. Almost 39% was claimed to have been recycled, well above the current [...]