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What your business needs to know

Every business knows they should continually look at new ways to improve their environmental performance. Several factors make this not just desirable but essential. These include:


• Environmental legislation and the cost of non-compliance

• Cutting costs through managing resources (energy, water, waste etc) more
   efficiently

• Procurement requirements increasingly include environmental accreditation

• Pressure from the public through increasing awareness of environmental issues

But it’s one thing knowing you should do it - and another thing knowing how. We can offer your business the expert advice it needs to help you decide how to minimise environmental impacts, improve corporate image and realise healthy savings.

Our business teams offer a personalised consultancy service tailored towards your specific requirements. Your company can benefit from our range of bespoke services including:

• Assistance with legal compliance

• Development and implementation of Environmental Management Systems

• Advice on waste management and waste minimisation

• Transport and travel planning

All our services are delivered through skilled consultants experienced in working with a spectrum of commercial organisations from tourism to engineering.

Project Synopses

Analysis of composition data for metals in household kerbside waste (Ball Packaging Europe)

Analysis of composition data for metals in household kerbside waste (Ball Packaging Europe)   This study assessed the arisings and capture of metals in kerbside wastes in England and the degree to which various factors affect arisings and capture.

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

Assessing Bulky Waste in Northern Ireland

Resource Futures carried out a comprehensive review of bulky wastes in Northern Ireland. The review considered quantities arising, types, sources and destinations of bulky waste materials; and importantly the capacity for reuse of such material.The report is intended to be a useful contribution to the waste prevention strand of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy.

News and Events

Resources North Summer Seminar - 9 July 2010

Food for Thought: Cogitating, Deliberating and Digesting the Food Waste Issue

Friday 9 July 2010
Heath Training and Development Centre, Free School Lane, Halifax, HX1 2PT

Resources North Spring Seminar 2010

Resources North Spring Seminar 2010 – Briefing Note
Commercial and Industrial Waste: Whose Business is it Anyway?

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