In March 2019 our consultants led two days of workshops in Brussels to gather ideas, facilitate discussions and canvass industry opinions for two studies that we are currently undertaking for the European Commission. One of these reports relates to the development of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) (covering packaging, waste electrical [...]
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We have partnered with the award-winning campaign Refill, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), United Utilities and Bury Council to install two new water fountains in Bury, Manchester. The community fountains have been installed by GMCA as part of a pilot scheme with Refill, the campaign to prevent plastic pollution by [...]
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% [...]
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 [...]
A group of our consultants have completed an online course in Ecolinguistics, which is aimed at providing new ways of thinking about how ecological issues are presented in the media, academia, and beyond. The course culminated in a visit from its creator, Professor Arran Stibbe. Based on Professor Stibbe’s book [...]
We are supporting York Business Improvement District (BID) to procure a collaborative commercial waste contract. The aim is to secure a high quality, low cost waste collection service for businesses in the city. York BID has asked commercial waste collectors to put forward proposals to improve the bin collections that [...]
Councils collecting bulky waste could increase recycling by 1.5% and save £450,000 over five years, new measures from our Waste Prevention Toolkit have found. The new data comes from our updated Waste Prevention Toolkit (WPT), which is a set of tools built to help local authorities determine the impact of [...]
We are supporting St Albans Business Improvement District (BID) to procure a collaborative commercial waste contract, with the aim of securing a high quality, low cost waste collection service for businesses in the city. St Albans BID has asked commercial waste collectors to put forward proposals to improve the bin [...]
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 [...]
Our Head of Environmental Policy and Economics, Dr Chris Sherrington, was commissioned by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF)’s China Programme to speak as part of an exchange of expertise on the design of policies to improve the management of plastics and microplastics. The exchange, which took place in the first [...]
