Resource Futures

🚨 We are looking for a consultant to join our Waste Strategy team! 🚨 Our Waste Strategy team works with governments, authorities and businesses to define, manage, evolve and optimise waste and resources strategies, delivering greener, cost-efficient outcomes. You'll need good data analytical skills and data modelling experience, good knowledge of the waste and resources sector and an understanding of the national policy landscape to contribute to waste strategies linked to local plans and assist in the development of waste services procurement documentation. Sound like the perfect role for you, or someone you know? Further details can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eb4ccDG6

It's the season of cheer - and what could be more festive than... commercial food waste collections? 🥒🥕🥔 Tomorrow (Thursday, 1pm) we'll be chatting through what you can expect from the upcoming mandatory changes being made to recycling for businesses, and looking at how both businesses and local authorities can work to ease the transition and help bring down the amount of food that is wasted commercially. Tickets are free; you can book yours here: https://lnkd.in/eAW4Naat #foodwaste #recycling #simplerrecycling

What will changes to #foodwaste collections mean for your organisation? 🥕 It's only three days until our webinar (Thurs, 1pm) on preparing for changes to commercial collections, where we will be: 📢 Sharing insight on what these changes will mean for local authorities and businesses of all types (not just those that manufacture or distribute food as a primary activity!); 🍟 Looking at practical ways for organisations to reduce food waste; 🟢 Explore how we can turn food - one of the biggest contributors to waste in the UK - into a into a positive opportunity for regenerative action. Tickets are free and can be found here. Don't miss out: https://lnkd.in/eaAJM9fD

🚨Calling all Local Authorities in the UK 🚨 We are working with the National Bed Federation to understand how mattresses are being reused and recycled in the UK. 🛏️ ♻️ As part of this, we are compiling data on mattress recycling and reuse rates in local authorities across the country. 📊 Can you help us understand how your local authority manages mattresses at the end of their life, or know who can point us in the right direction? If so, please either drop us a message or take 5-10 minutes to fill out our survey: https://lnkd.in/gze3aTsa

With changes to mandatory commercial recycling services around food waste due to take effect in March 2025, time is running out to put new arrangements in place ahead of the change. ⌛ This change is going to affect thousands of businesses across the country – not just those directly manufacturing or selling food - so to help businesses and local authorities get ahead of this change, we're offering a free webinar on 19 December for businesses wanting to know more about this new legislation and what it could mean for their operations. This webinar looks at how we can navigate the challenges of setting up new recycling collections and find practical ways to reduce food waste. 🥕

How can businesses and local authorities make sure they are prepared for the arrival of mandatory food collections? We'll be covering this topic in detail at our webinar next week (Thurs 19 December), where Sarah Hargreaves and Gwen Frost will look at: ♻️ How we can navigate the challenges of setting up new food recycling systems; 🔪 Practical ways we can reduce food waste; 🥕 Ideas for turning food into a positive opportunity for regenerative action. You can find more details about the session - and get your (free!) tickets - here: https://lnkd.in/exAn_kMZ

🔔🔔Out with the old, in with the new - it's getting to that time of year, and this was the theme of today's joint meeting of the Scottish Parliament's cross-party groups on Wellbeing Economy, Social Enterprise and Circular Economy, hosted by Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll (thanks Lukas Bunse). In this case, the 'old' are the highly financialised, profit-centric businesses that can dehumanise employees while extracting (and often exporting) profits. The 'new' are inclusive, democratic enterprises such as co-ops, employee- and community-owned businesses, which seek to thrive economically while supporting people and planet. As we seek to build a Scottish economy with more jobs in circular businesses and renewable energy, Neil McInroy points out that there is an opportunity to support more of these to be human-centric, democratic organisations that create the kind of jobs people actually want. Personally, I'd love to see this more prominently supported in high school business education (rather than the current offering, where young people are taught about entrepreneurship with scant regard for social or environmental considerations), and in the advice available for Scottish start-ups. Thanks to Neil, Robert McMaster, Michael Cook, Susan Pinkney and Lucinda Broadbent for helping connect the threads of wellbeing & circular economy in a tangible way. Neil’s recent report for the Scottish Government on the ‘Independent Review of Inclusive and Democratic Business Models (IDBMs) in Scotland’ is here: https://lnkd.in/eHERMU5C (And of course, I have to point out that Resource Futures embodies this shift, as a non-profit-sharing, employee-owned B Corp that focuses on a just transition to a low-carbon, circular economy!)

Partnerships = progress 🫶 We were lucky enough to have three of our projects - Community RePaint, Fixy and RECOFLOOR LIMITED - all nominated at this year's MRW National Recycling Awards. 🏅 We love awards season because it offers us a chance to celebrate the partnerships that power our community-focused campaigns, and thank the crucial partners that help to power them: 🖌️ Our paint reuse programme Community RePaint and Dulux (fresh off a victory in the British Coatings Federation Awards) were shortlisted for 'Circular Economy Initiative'; 🔌 Our waste electronics recovery project Fixy and our partners Somerset Council, SUEZ UK, Ecosurety, Material Focus and DONATE IT were up for 'Partnership Excellence – Public/Private sector'; ♻️ And vinyl flooring takeback scheme RECOFLOOR LIMITED (with Altro Limited and Polyflor Ltd) were up for three separate awards: 'Circular Economy Initiative', 'Partnership Excellence – Commercial' and 'Recycling Excellence'. Sadly we didn't pick up any awards this year, but it was a wonderful opportunity for our teams to celebrate their achievements and thank our partners for their part in bringing about a more circular society. 🟢

Tickets are now available for our webinar series on reduction, reuse, repair and community action! 🎫 Designed for local authorities, businesses and community groups wanting to achieve meaningful progress on the above topics, these sessions will look at: 🥕 The introduction of commercial food waste collections (19 December) hosted by Sarah Hargreaves 🫂 The importance of community action (22 January) hosted by Charlotte Eddisford 🔌 Boosting electrical reuse, repair and recycling (12 February) hosted by Jude King 📊 Using data to build more effective services (5 March) hosted by Gwen Frost Each session is free to attend and will run for 45-60 mins. You can find more information - and get hold of tickets - at the following link: https://lnkd.in/enm3JzHV #reuse #repair #weee #foodwaste #data #recycling

We are delighted to welcome RECOFLOOR LIMITED to our team at Resource Futures! 🥳 As of November 2024, we've taken on the management of Recofloor - an award-winning UK-wide scheme that offers a sustainable alternative to landfill for businesses looking to manage their discarded vinyl by collecting and recycling it, providing an opportunity to drive down waste, cut costs and reduce the environmental impact of their activities. The project continues to be jointly funded by Altro Limited and Polyflor Ltd, who will be working with ourselves and the existing Recofloor team to ensure the programme continues to thrive and achieve its mission to greatly reduce the amount of vinyl material being wasted in the construction and flooring sectors. You can read more about the transition here: https://lnkd.in/eMuEr8hc