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The final publication for our CMUR project has been released!

This EPA-funded research was led by our Research Officer Dr Jack McCarthy, in collaboration with the Clean Technology Centre and Circle Economy.

Ireland has consistently registered a poor score in terms of its Circular Material Use Rate (CMUR) – a key circular economy metric of the EU. Moreover, Ireland’s policy ambitions are to surpass the EU average CMUR by 2030. The task for this research was to interrogate Ireland’s CMUR score – the second lowest in the EU as at 2020 – to determine why it has been so poor, and to identify potential pathways for improving Ireland’s circularity performance.