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Creating a Sustainable World

Enabling positive management of material resources

We are waste and resources experts. Working with business, governments, local authorities and communities to minimise the impact of production and consumption through reduction, reuse, recycling and circular business models.

Our Services

Behaviour Change

Realising our vision to create a sustainable world is inextricably linked to achieving significant and lasting behaviour change

Carbon

From carbon footprinting to life cycle analysis, our niche service is proven to help clients understand and strengthen their business case

Circular Economy

We help businesses prevent waste and keep materials in use longer, supporting your transition to circular products and business models.

Community Impact

Environmental challenges require collaboration and innovation at a local level. We empower people to improve their communities and quality of life.

Data and Tools

Data-driven decision-making is at the heart of any successful strategy. We’ll help you draw valuable insight from data and put it to use.

Policy

With 30-years’ heritage in waste and resources, our track record is one of working with government and industry to affect policy development.

Waste Strategy

We are the modelling and service change experts, developing effective waste management strategies for local authorities.

How do we help clients be more sustainable?

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Our Impact

Our focus has always been the impact of our work on people and the planet.

We produce an impact report every year as part of our commitment to being a B Corp.

Our latest Impact Report highlights our societal and environmental contributions over the past financial year (April 2023 – March 2024).

This year’s Report shares the stories around where we made the most positive impact as an organisation, as well as highlighting how we intend to progress our commitments made in the five B Corp areas: Governance, Environment, Customers, Community and People.

Our Vision

Our vision is to create a sustainable world.
A world where we meet the needs of the present without compromising our future.

Our Approach

We seek to change the way resources are used.
Addressing challenging environmental problems to create lasting value for society.

Featured

News

Fixy helps flat residents in Wells make the switch to recycling electricals

Residents in a block of flats in Wells can now easily recycle their electricals with the launch of a Fixy-led pilot project in the Somerset city.

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Defra appoints Resource Futures to help tackle littering, fly-tipping and dog fouling

Resources Futures has been contracted by Defra to explore the use and effectiveness of enforcement against littering, fly-tipping and dog fouling offences.

News

Technical support pilot to improve national plastic waste reporting

Resource Futures is working with the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions to pilot tools for environmentally sound management of plastic waste in more than 19 countries.

Insights

How we go beyond for our people

Caroline Beardkins, HR Manager at Resource Futures, explains how we are uniquely positioned to ‘go beyond’ for our people, to help them grow and thrive.

Our Work

Establishing a new CAG network in Somerset

Community Action Groups (CAG) Somerset was established in 2023 after the successful introduction of similar networks in Oxfordshire and Devon (launched in 2001 and 2016 respectively). CAG Somerset was envisaged as a new way to support sustainable action in communities across the county, with a focus on delivering innovative projects around community reuse, repair, waste reduction, sharing, …

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Delivering nationwide composition analysis to drive waste reduction in Wales

To understand how to solve the issues created by waste, first you need to understand what’s in the waste we throw away. To gain a clearer picture of the makeup of municipal waste and litter and inform the development of future waste reduction initiatives, WRAP Cymru commissioned the Resource Futures team to produce a national …

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