Rob Buurman is director of the Netherlands based NGO Fair Resource Foundation, which advocates for fair production and consumption of resources within planetary boundaries. He has a strong expertise in extended producer responsibility and circular economy. In 2017 he founded a broad coalition of stakeholders for the support of deposit refund systems in The Netherlands and Belgium, leading to the expansion of DRS in the Netherlands in 2021. Currently, he is active in the new producer responsibility organisation on textiles in The Netherlands called Collectief Circulair Textiel that he jointly set up with his colleague and is strongly involved in developing plastic policy in The Netherlands with the purpose of decreasing fossil plastics to zero.