The following companies and organisations have made the project and product possible:

Greenbank Trust

'Understanding the Environment has emerged from a unique collaboration between the Multimedia Environmental Education Group at the University of Leeds and the Greenbank Trust, an Environmental Body receiving contributions from the waste management industry under the UK Landfill Tax Credit Scheme. As regulators of the Credit Scheme, ENTRUST is pleased that this system is available to provide the underpinning knowledge to encourage the use of more sustainable waste management practices and technologies.'

Earl of Cranbrook
Chairman of ENTRUST

Casey Group

The Casey Group is proud to support the Greenbank Trust and its environmental education projects. I believe that education is the key to improving all aspects of our lives and a better understanding of the environment is an essential element of this. The Casey Group has chosen to promote the fundamentally important goal of environmental sustainability by supporting the production and development of this valuable educational resource which has already been widely acclaimed in schools, colleges, universities and among the industrial and business community. I hope that you make good use of it. By working together, we can make a difference.

Peter Casey
Chairman, Casey Group of Companies

Leeds University

The state of the environment affects all our lives

It affects the quality of the air we breathe and of the water we drink. It
determines the availability of energy and other resources to produce the
goods and services on which we depend and the food we eat.

It generates constraints and legal controls on decision making. It
conditions the broadening and narrowing of business opportunities. It
creates the world in which future generations will have to live.

Understanding the Environment is a vital pre-requisite for informed
behaviour and action, and an essential input for sustainable development
and change.

Environmental education is of crucial importance if an adequate
understanding of environmental problems at local, national and global
scales is to be achieved and positive ways forward identified.

Sally Macgill
Dean of the Faculty of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds