Towards a new relationship with resources
Fair Resource Foundation is committed to a new relationship with resources. A relationship that respects the carrying capacity of the earth. Driven by our passion for waste prevention, smart policy, circular systems and reuse, we strive for a new system. We achieve this through policy advocacy, systems analysis, stimulating debate, building coalitions and research. With passion and determination, we work to realise a positive impact on our planet and society.
Our work
Resources
We are working toward a sustainable and equitable use of resources that is within the carrying capacity of the planet.
Waste and pollution
We strive for ambitious waste policies that are committed to reducing waste and fighting litter.
Fair environmental policy
We encourage politicians and policy makers to formulate sustainable, social environmental policies.
– RESEARCH –
THE NETHERLANDS AS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE PLASTIC WASTE TRADE
Rotterdam becomes the first city in the Netherlands without disposable cups! At more than 30 hospitality partners, you can now borrow a deposit cup. Empty cups can go into the drop-off machine at Rotterdam Central Station. A project of our transition program Mission Reuse.
Collectief Circulair Textiel
Collectief Circulair Textiel was founded by Fair Resource Foundation and is the first producer organisation in Europe founded by an environmental organisation! Visit the website and read more about what the collective does.
Latest publications
Multinationals aim to sabotage new EU rules against single-use packaging, we try to stop them
Three months before the introduction of new European legislation aimed at reducing single-use packaging, increasing reuse and banning toxic PFAS in food packaging (the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, PPWR), multinationals are attempting to block the rules. Whilst the world is increasingly overwhelmed by packaging waste, 138 CEOs – including those of Heineken, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Mondeléz and Kraft Heinz – are once again lobbying via a leaked letter to the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council. They are once again calling for a delay and watering down of these important rules due to ‘ambiguities’. But our health and environment cannot wait for multibillion-euro companies that struggle with change. Therefore, together with more than 160 NGOs, we are calling on the European Commission not to give in to these companies.
We cooperate with
