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Helping you do what you do more sustainably

Resource Futures is an employee-owned, ethically driven company which works on sustainable waste management and resource efficiency projects.

Resource Futures is based in Bristol with staff in Leeds, Oxfordshire and Devon and has over 25 years track record in sustainability and resource management. Our dedicated teams include over 35 staff with experience across a range of fields including: 

  • Research and evaluation
     
  • Waste consultancy
     
  • Communication and behaviour change
     
  • Resource Efficiency
     
  • Schools' education programmes

 

  • Working with communities 

Our mission is simple: to help you do what you do in a sustainable way. This means more effective management of the earth’s finite resources, chiefly materials, energy and water, by providing first class resource efficiency solutions - and managing our own business sustainably.

Because we are non profit distributing, we put everything back into the company to help us provide you with lasting, positive resource management services.

Please see our Environmental Policy  

Project Synopses

Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

Resource Futures has recently helped WRAP to estimate how much household food waste has decreased nationally in recent years, with the recently published “Synthesis of Food Waste Compositional Data 2010” 

Best estimates ever of what’s in our rubbish

Defra has published a study carried out by Resource Futures which provides the best estimates to date of what’s in the ‘national rubbish bin’.

Research into reuse of household items through online portals

In 2011, Resource Futures carried out WRAP funded research into how household items are reused through online portals such as eBay, Freegle and Gumtree.  The research included a detailed survey on internet user habits regarding online exchange and sought to understand the reasons for not using such sites.  

News and Events

Community RePaint: A Helping Hand for Hearts and Minds in 2011

In 2011, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 343,957 litres of paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 217,112 litres to community groups and individuals saving 565 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of taking 192 cars off our roads - and providing 766 volunteer and training opportunities. The network now has over 65 schemes across the UK and with four new schemes about to start at the beginning of 2012.    

Resource Futures seeks new Non-Executive Chair

Following restructuring during 2011 Resource Futures is now looking to strengthen its Board with a new Non-Executive Chair.  The company is forecasting a three-fold increase in its profit from 2% in the year ended March 2010 to 6% for the year ending March 2012.  The new position will join Chief Executive Officer Jane Stephenson MBE and Operations Director Sam Reeve, bringing independent scrutiny and advice to this successful business at Board level. 

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