We have been working with WRAP Cymru and Sustainable Global Resources to develop a guide for procuring plastics in the Welsh public sector. 400,000 tonnes of plastic waste were generated in Wales in 2014, with a growing body of evidence indicating that waste not collected for recycling is accumulating in [...]
The Greater London Authority (GLA) has released an updated greenhouse gas (GHG) calculator for London boroughs to use to project their performance against the GLA’s Emissions Performance Standard (EPS). The EPS is a world first, with London being the first city to set climate-related targets alongside targets for waste management [...]
Working with a range of partners, we have designed and launched a trial campaign to prevent battery fires by encouraging people to recycle batteries separately and safely. “Batteries can burn and fires can kill – Recycle batteries separately” is the strong message from the new campaign in Merseyside which runs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Highland Council has commissioned us to undertake a review of its commercial waste service in order to understand the opportunities for improvements in cost-efficiency and delivery. Located in the Scottish Highlands, the Highland Council area is the largest local government area in the UK. The council provides a large-scale [...]
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 [...]
Darebin City Council (DCC) in Melbourne, Australia were the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in December 2016. We have been appointed to help the council to determine what practical actions they can take to meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon that they currently emit through their [...]
We have been appointed as the sole contractor for Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) in a two-year framework to carry out waste collection options appraisals for Scottish local authorities. ZWS is funded to support the delivery of the Scottish Government’s circular economy strategy – including an ambitious recycling target of 70% [...]
The Welsh Government is considering options to tackle the problems associated with food and drink packaging, in line with the principles of Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR). The Welsh Government has identified that the everyday litter seen across cities, towns and the countryside is having a negative impact on both the [...]