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Waste management
Spain's DRS: the beverage container deposit scheme due to start in November 2026
Spain's deposit, refund and return system (SDDR, the Spanish deposit return scheme) requires a minimum deposit of 0.10 euros on every single-use plast ...
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Waste management
The Risks of Not Digitizing Industrial Waste Management in 2026
2026 is the year that managing industrial waste on paper or in spreadsheets stops being merely inefficient and starts becoming expensive. Regulatory p ...
Green finances
Colombia's 2026 Carbon Tax: Rate, Coal Phase-In and the Non-Accrual Mechanism
Colombia's national carbon tax applies to the carbon dioxide equivalent content of fossil fuels burned for combustion. For 2026 , the rate is 29,070.4 ...
Practical guides
Complete Guide to Carbon Auditing in Logistics
More and more logistics and transport companies are getting a specific request from their clients: a carbon footprint report broken down by shipment, ...
Waste management
Everything You Need to Know About Automotive Waste in 2026
If your company manufactures, assembles, or supplies parts for the automotive sector, waste management is no longer just a basic environmental complia ...
Core climate concepts
Electricity Emission Factors in Latin America by Country
An electricity emission factor is the figure that converts a company's electricity consumption (in kWh or MWh) into tonnes of CO2 equivalent for scope ...
Legislation and regulation
Spain's PRTR register: what it is, who must report and when the deadline falls
Spain's State Register of Emissions and Pollutant Sources, known as PRTR-España, is the public database where industrial facilities report each year h ...
Water footprint
REPDA and CONAGUA: what your company must declare about water use in Mexico
The old Public Registry of Water Rights (REPDA) isn't called that anymore: since 12 December 2025, when Mexico's new General Water Law and the reforms ...
Practical guides
Hotel and tourism carbon footprint: how to calculate it and what tour operators ask for
A hotel's carbon footprint is calculated by adding up the property's scope 1 and 2 emissions (energy, fuels, refrigerants), the same logic laid out in ...
Legislation and regulation
PPWR packaging minimization and empty space ratio: what it requires and how to calculate it
From 1 January 2030, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging sets a maximum empty space ratio of 50% for grouped packaging, transport packaging and e-com ...
Legislation and regulation
2027 sustainability regulatory calendar: key dates for companies in Spain and the EU
2027 is the year the revised CSRD starts to apply to large companies above the new thresholds, with the simplified ESRS mandatory for financial years ...
Waste management
NOM-161-SEMARNAT-2011: which special management waste requires a management plan and how to build one
NOM-161-SEMARNAT-2011 sets out the criteria for classifying a waste stream as special management waste and determines which of those streams must have ...
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