IRRI Mission ...

"Only when the last tree has died and
The last river has been poisoned and
The last fish has been caught,
Will we realise that
We cannot eat money"
19th century Cree Indian

Julie Sturrock - An Appreciation ...

International Resources and Recycling Institute is an applied research institute whose purpose is to bring together an international community of all interests for the first time to search for the knowledge we need to solve the world’s resource problems.

Our world is making mistakes every day. We watch the news about food shortages, caused by transferring crop production to biofuels, we read front page headlines like "Billions wasted on UN Climate Change programme" (The Guardian, p.1, 26th May 2008) and see calamitous fuel price rises. We must not continue to get things wrong.

International Resources and Recycling Institute is for people who think we are not doing enough to save the world’s resources. People who read the headlines and hear the News, and worry about the way the world is organizing its answer to the problems. People who notice that we may not think hard enough about what to do before we do it, and then regret it later. This is the story of progress. It has been progress at a cost, and we are now starting to regret that cost.

So what can we do about it that we are not doing already? What can we do about it that will make it better, not worse? We can think together about the problems before we rush to the wrong solutions.

International Resources and Recycling Institute is dedicated to work against wasting the world’s resources. It is fighting against the chronic shortages the world now faces as a consequence of the mistakes we have made. IRRI exists because we can accelerate progress to put our problems right if we work together.

IRRI is a membership organisation, inviting organisations to join from around the world in the public, private or academic sectors with a shared interest in developing their productive work in resource use and recycling.

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