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'Greening' your school

Working towards whole-school sustainability

Resource Futures can support your school in addressing challenges such as energy and carbon reduction, resource efficiency and environmental awareness. We have wide-ranging expertise and experience in the teaching and learning aspects whole-school sustainability, making clear the connections to national education requirements.

We can offer:

  • training for teachers, governors and other school staff
  • class sessions with pupils
  • support for pupil Green Teams
  • energy and waste audits
  • opportunities for teachers to join a local network and share experiences
  • information on funding and specialist advice
  • teaching and learning resources
  • links with local community initiatives

Our approach is to enable pupils to be the driving force behind making their schools more sustainable. The perfect starting point is for the School Council, or a specially formed 'Green Team', to carry out an audit to assess the environmental performance of their school. Through consultation with the rest of the school and the wider community they decide which environmental issues they want to address and how they are going to do it. Measuring and monitoring is an integral part of providing your school with all the evidence it needs to shout about its environmental success!

For more information, or to discuss your school's requirements and our costs, contact the Education Team on 0117 914 3456 or email us.

Case Studies

Reducing energy use in Bristol schools

Resource Futures worked in partnership with Bristol City Council, Green Path Solutions and Sustainable Redland to help Bristol Primary schools reduce their energy usage.  The key messages were why saving energy is so important to help the environment and save money and how everyone can do their bit to help. 

Bulky Waste Guidance

Resource Futures was contracted by WRAP to develop Bulky Waste Guidance for Local Authorities in association with Caroline Lee-Smith. The guidance updated the original toolkit “Bulky Waste Collections; Maximising Reuse and Recycling - A Step by Step Guide” which provides ideas and identifies opportunities to increase the amount of household bulky waste that is reused and recycled. 

Devon Composting in Schools project

The Devon Composting in Schools project, delivered by Resource Futures, was possibly the biggest schools' food waste composting programme in the country, involving over 80 Devon primary and secondary schools.

News and Events

Comprehensive guidance published to assist local authorities improve the performance of HWRCs

Resource Futures has produced comprehensive guidance to help local authorities, waste management companies and third sector organisations to improve the performance of Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs). Commissioned and published by WRAP, the guidance provides advice about cost-effective methods to improve HWRC management and a number of case studies from across the country.

Report reveals 1.5 million tonnes of bulky waste are disposed of each year in the UK

Resource Futures has carried out the biggest fieldwork project to investigate arisings of bulky household waste in the UK. The project, commissioned by WRAP, estimates that over 1.5 million tonnes of bulky waste items are disposed of in the UK annually.  Most of these items are taken to Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and over half of these are estimated to be re-usable.

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