A Future without Rubbish CIC (AFWR) exists to reduce waste pollution of our environment, on our coasts, in our rivers and on land, and to engage, educate and equip communities to act on it. During the year ended 31st December 2025 the company’s principal activities, and the community benefit they delivered, were as follows. Historic landfill risk auditing (ISRRA): AFWR’s Initial Site Risk and Responsibility Audit of historic landfill sites for Skegness Town Council received public coverage in April 2025; the Audit identified five historic landfill sites of which the council had previously been unaware, moving risk from local knowledge towards institutional responsibility, for the benefit of Skegness residents and our environment. The company’s earlier Audit work with Frodsham Town Council progressed during 2025 to consideration at Cheshire West and Chester Council level, demonstrating the escalatory community benefit of the methodology: each Audit prompts action at a higher tier of government. National advocacy: On 11th June 2025 the company was invited to speak at the Zane’s Law Summit on contaminated land and water at Parliament, chaired by Baroness Bennett, where AFWR’s ISRRA work was presented as a first step aligned with the aims of Zane’s Law, raising national awareness of the publichealth risks of historic landfill for communities across England. Public engagement and education (The Coastline Runner): In July 2025 the company delivered the four stretch Suffolk Chapter (Lowestoft to Shingle Street), combining coastal running and litter collection with meetings involving schools, town councils, waste businesses and community groups, and piloting the “Setting The Standard” framework in collaboration with UKELA. The company delivered school engagement sessions during the year (including in Lowestoft and at Marlborough College), took part in community beach cleans (including with Adnams at Southwold), and communicated the harms of plastic pollution of our ocean through national and local broadcast media. Research and public information: In August 2025 the company produced and published a research paper on the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations (INC-5.2, Geneva), informed by discussions with senior former EU officials, and contributed a World Environment Day blog for the Society for the Environment (June 2025): free public resources supporting informed debate on plastic pollution. Campaigns. The Use Helium Wisely campaign continued to document helium-balloon pollution on our coasts, gathered on beach runs and cleans, and to make the evidence-based case for regulation of balloon releases.

The company’s stakeholders are the councils and landowners that commission or host its work, the residents of the places it works in, schools, volunteers, partner organisations and funders. During the year it consulted them as follows. Councils: The Skegness Audit was scoped with Skegness Town Council, its findings reported to elected members and published only after discussion with the council; the council’s response shaped the Recommended Next Steps and the subsequent engagement with East Lindsey District Council. Frodsham Town Council’s feedback on its earlier Audit led to the company supporting the council in taking the findings to Cheshire West and Chester Council. Schools, community groups and volunteers: During the Suffolk Chapter the company met schools, town councils, businesses and community groups on each stretch, and took feedback from participants at cleans and school sessions on what was collected and where; that feedback informed where subsequent events were held and how litter data is recorded and shared back with communities. Partners: The “Setting The Standard” framework was piloted with UKELA during the Suffolk Chapter, and the company’s ISRRA methodology was discussed with landowners, including The Crown Estate, whose requirements informed its development. Directors. The unpaid board of five directors reviewed the company’s activities and finances during the year.

No remuneration was received

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration