Biodiversity and the resources and waste sector

Biodiversity is essential to life on earth, but it is in significant decline resulting from human consumption habits, mineral extraction, climate change, pollution, changes to land and sea use and invasive species.
The resources and waste management sector already plays an important role in helping to protect biodiversity, by pursuing a more circular economy (which helps to limit raw material extraction) and by safely managing waste which might otherwise end up as pollution.
But the sector can, and is, doing even more to protect, restore and enhance biodiversity. This short film summarises the issues and supports the launch of the ESA's Biodiversity Best Practice Guide - which was published in December 2022 and is available to download from www.esauk.org