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Resource Use and Waste Generation in Aotearoa
In May 2025, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) published the research note 'Resource use and waste generation in Aotearoa New Zealand: filling (some) gaps' to contribute to the investigation they're carrying out on the impacts economic...
Invisible Waste: Unveiling Microplastic Pollution
Consultant Anita Lewis presented a webinar hosted by WasteMINZ on the 9th October 2024. Titled 'Invisible Waste: Unveiling Microplastic Pollution', Anita discusses the pervasive issue of microplastics. Focusing on its sources, environmental impacts, and the role of...
New Zealand’s National Recycling Rate: Options and Estimates
The Ministry for the Environment commissioned Eunomia to produce a report about recycling rates that would assist them to determine how to calculate national recycling rates for Aotearoa New Zealand. Six metrics were put forward for the Ministry's refinement and...
Organic Waste Collection and Processing Guidance
WasteMINZ have recently published the Organic Waste Collection and Processing Guidance for Local Authorities that was produced by Eunomia with support from Waste Not Consulting and Sunshine Yates Consulting, with funding and support from the WasteMINZ Territorial...
Waste to Energy Technology Implications in Aotearoa
In September 2024 Eunomia produced a report for Waikato Regional and Tauranga City Councils that seeks to understand what place waste to energy has in Aotearoa. The report presents outcomes on key waste to energy technologies and their potential application in New...
Contaminants in Organic Waste: Recommendations Report
In February 2024 Eunomia, alongside Whetū Consulting Group and Massey University, published a report for the Ministry for the Environment with recommendations to reduce contaminants in organic waste. The report provides 35 holistic recommendations to improve the...
Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Stocktake
Eunomia undertook a comprehensive review of New Zealand's waste and resource recovery infrastructure in 2020-21. The summary report for the project is now publicly available and can be downloaded here. The project covered three phases: 1. Stocktake of existing...
Carbon Impacts of Waste
So you declared a climate emergency. What’s next? Duncan Wilson presented at the WasteMINZ conference in October 2019 about how tackling waste can have a bigger carbon impact than you might think. Officially waste accounts for 5% of NZ’s greenhouse gas...
Microplastics from tyres
Ever wondered where the rubber on your tyres goes when it wears off? Eunomia Senior Consultant Dr Chiarina Darrah took part in a panel discussion on the problem of microplastics from tyre wear at this year’s Fully Charged Live. The festival of clean energy...
Impact of China National Sword
Director Duncan Wilson presented on the Impact of China National Sword at this year's WasteMINZ conference in Christchurch. The analysis concluded that, while the impact has been major so far, we are probably still only at the beginning of the changes that we will...
Rebooting Recycling in Aotearoa
The discussion document Rebooting Recycling - What can Aotearoa do? has been released by WasteMINZ. Eunomia worked with WasteMINZ and the recycling industry to develop the document. Overview: The collapse in international recycling markets has left the recycling...
Waste Planning – The Future
In this article from Revolve magazine Duncan Wilson looks at the past and future of waste planning in New Zealand. The way we manage waste has evolved significantly over the last 30 years. Unfortunately not a lot of credit for that can go to our waste planning. If we...
new-reports
- Beyond subsidies: New funding models for regenerative agriculture in the UK 06/10/2025 Tai Burke
- When ‘mandatory’ doesn’t mean everybody: The UK policy loophole threatening food waste collections 24/09/2025 Tai Burke
- Extended Producer Responsibility and LCA’s: Unpacking the Oregon approach 15/09/2025 Tai Burke
- Beyond the bin: Bridging the gap between US compost design and use 10/09/2025 Tai Burke
- What is the European Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and why does it matter? 20/08/2025 Tai Burke
- Behind the bans: the environmental impacts of single-use vapes 02/06/2025 Eunomia
- Hungry for change: healthy plates, healthy planet 28/05/2025 Olivia Lelong
- Target practice: managing land to meet UK net zero ambitions 20/05/2025 Olivia Lelong
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