Welcome to Resource Recovery Forum
The Resource Recovery Forum is an international non-profit network of more than 250 organisations interested in sustainable waste management - making better use of waste that is produced. The Forum's aims are simple.
RRF was established in 1997 and its membership is drawn from: industry; local & national government; international institutions; academia; the voluntary sector; waste management businesses; NGOs, and; consultants. We have member organisations from Canada and the USA across many European countries to Australasia. From AEA Technology to Yale University.
RRF has five Trustees, one of whom is elected as Chair, every other year. Copies of the new, approved Memorandum & Articles of Association of the Resource Recovery Forum can be downloaded from here.
The Forum benefits from the members' Advisory Committee, a group of 30 members who are also elected every two years. For the period until March 2011 members are:
David ALEXANDER (Consultant), Alison AUSTIN (Consultant), Tim BURNS (Waste Watch), Chris COGGINS (Wamtech), Jayne COX (Brook Lyndhurst), Andrew CRAIG (LARAC), Angela DRUCKMAN (University of Surrey), Gev EDULJEE (SITA), David FITZSIMONS (Oakdene Hollins), Alban FORSTER (SLR), Andy HUDSON (Milton Keynes), Peter JONES (Ecolateral), John LEA (John Lea Associates), Barbara LEACH (WRAP), Bob LISNEY (LRL Consultancy), Siân MILES (BPI), Dee MOLONEY (London Remade Solutions), Shirley NEWMAN (University of Central Lancashire), Richard POYNTON (Consultant), Adam READ (AEA), Steve READ (Somerset Waste Partnership), Keith RILEY (Veolia), Dick SEARLE (Packaging Federation), Veronica SHARP (Social Marketing Practice), Hilary STONE (Imperial College), Chindarat TAYLOR (PTZW), Christine THOMAS (Open University), Julian PARFITT (Resource Futures), John TWITCHEN (Sauce Consultancy), Tim WALKER (Belfast City).
RRF is collaborating with PlasticsEurope on the organisation of IdentiPlast 2010 international conference. Download the programme from here or follow this link for more information on registration.
Membership benefits
Members of the Forum receive many benefits. The Forum organises conferences and meetings, and both endorses and speaks at third party events. RRF operates a great news service, delivered daily (up to 1,000 items pa, no adverts, no attachments, just useful and topical information on policy & practice from around the world) or as weekly digests, and these come as emails or as a PDF attachment.
A single member organisation can add unlimited numbers of employees to this fine facility. Also, the items are archived online and are fully searchable. In 2010, the Forum introduced a more detailed report archive than ever before, where members can download copies of the RRF's own reports, funded through the UK Landfill Tax Credit system.These reports can be found here (you will need your RRF userid & password).
The Forum's regular Advisory Committee meetings (4-5 per year, usually in London) are open to all RRF members, and invariably feature an interesting guest presentation. Last December, Sarah Gray from WRAP attended and gave a presentation on recent food waste studies. Follow this link for Sarah's slides and the two studies. In April 2010, WRAP's Keith James gave a presentation on a study reviewing life cycle assessments related to recycling. Follow this for a copy of Keith's slides. In June, Julian Parfitt (Resource Futures) gave an illustrated presentation on a detailed 2010 review of MSW compositional studies. His presentation is available here.
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