Resource Stewardship

We work with organisations to identify and evaluate opportunities to avoid, reuse and recover waste and adopt new circular economy business models.

Resources are fundamental to our society and wellbeing, yet increasing demand places huge pressure on our natural resources, degrading fragile ecosystems, and adversely affecting human health. At the same time, societies are becoming increasingly wasteful, pollution from plastic waste is a pressing global environmental problem and our resource recovery systems for discarded packaging, organics, textiles and e-waste are failing.

At ISF, we don’t see this as a simple waste-management problem. Our research takes a ‘circular economy’ approach that creates a new vision for sustainable economies, where products, processes and systems are redesigned to avoid waste and to maximise the value of resources through actions to: reduce, repurpose, reuse, remanufacture and recycle.