SuRF UK

SuRF-UK is the United Kingdom’s Sustainable Remediation Forum – an initiative set up to progress the UK understanding of sustainable remediation and sustainable land management. SuRF-UK is also a member of International Sustainable Remediation Alliance (ISRA).  SuRF- UK helps you understand how sustainable development can be applied to remediation.

Choose a role to find a pathway through the information available, or find what you need in the Roadmap below.

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Beginner's Guide

Learn the key principles about Sustainable Remediation with a simple introduction to sustainable remediation.

 Aimed at someone new to sustainability / sustainable remediation who wants or needs to understand in a basic way what it means and why and how they should do it.

Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is.

Read SuRF Bulletin 7 - Introduction to Sustainable Remediation 

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Learner's Guide

Developing knowledge about sustainable remediation.

Aimed at someone who has a basic understanding but needs to know more about what it involves, why it could be useful for them and how to implement it.

Starting point: The video animation above provides a quick overview.

Key Reading: 

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Debunking the Myths about Sustainable Remediation (External PDF download)

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Practitioner's Guide

Guidance and tools to help you carry out a sustainable remediation or a sustainability appraisal.

Aimed at someone looking to implement simple management practices or who intends to carry out a sustainability appraisal.

Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is.

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The framework document sets out why sustainability issues associated with remediation needs to be factored in right from the outset of a project.

Key Reading:

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Sustainable Management Practices for Management of Land Contamination

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Starting point: View the video animation for an overview of what sustainable remediation is

Key Reading:

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• {phocadownload view=file|id=819|text=SuRF-UK Sustainable Management Practices Report, 2021|target=s}
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Concawe Sustainable Remediation Case Studies 

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To navigate through the SuRF-UK web pages, please hover over the relevant section that you require on the road map and short cuts will direct you to the relevant page, alternatively navigate using the articles index to the right.

 Roadmap