Our founder and director, Luke Douglas-Home, and A Future Without Rubbish (AFWR) featured in Field Notes magazine, highlighting the growing recognition of one of the UK’s most overlooked environmental challenges: legacy landfill pollution. The mention by the powerful Institute of Environmental Science s reflects something imperative- historic landfill sites are not just relics of the past; they are active, evolving risks. Across the UK, there are over 20,000 closed or unre

Throughout the UK, thousands of historic landfill sites lie beneath housing estates, farmland, public open spaces, caravan parks, and stretches of coast that are increasingly vulnerable to flooding and erosion. It is rarely documented, obscured by others, and often missing from everyday public discussion. They are nevertheless part of the physical substrate on which modern-day communities live, build and farm. For councils, planners and environmental regulators, these sites r

A Future Without Rubbish recently launched its newest initiative - 'Setting the Standard: The Suffolk Chapter' in Lowestoft on 4 July! To...

On 11 June 2025, a landmark summit was held in Parliament to confront a long-ignored threat: historic landfill sites. Politicians, trade...