Press releases

WRAP welcomes the publication of the Zero Draft ahead of Novembers’ INC-3 in Nairobi. The first official draft of this important agreement synthesises feedback from INC-2 in Paris in May and offers further refinement of the proposed treaty provisions as a formal instrument for negotiations in November.

WRAP supports the Local Government Association and others in calling for a UK ban on disposable single use vapes, and the proposed Europe-wide ban on disposable vapes from 2026 - as outlined by the EU. We applaud France for introducing a country-wide ban by the end of this year and welcome the forthcoming Scottish consultation.

• UK programme puts power in the hands of local people - eighteen month multi-million-pound programme supports innovators in six countries.  

• WRAP and Innovate UK deliver International Circular Plastics Flagship Competition and expand support for four Plastics Pacts in South Africa, India, Chile, and Kenya.  

• Two new Plastics Pacts brings global count to fourteen – Colombia and a forthcoming Mexico Plastics Pact.  

• 3Cs Network (Circularity & Climate Champions) establishes global network for knowledge sharing on plastics.  

This year Recycle Week is celebrating its 20^th anniversary and will be inspiring children, families and whole communities to get involved in The Big Recycling Hunt.

This latest study from WRAP was conducted to provide Welsh Government and WRAP Cymru up-to-date data on the composition of waste collected by local authorities in Wales (the analysis included all municipal solid waste (MSW), mixed residual and commercial waste). The main aim of this work was to monitor progress against targets and identify further areas for improvement including understanding the proportion of the residual waste produced in Wales which could be diverted through recycling or composting.

• The analysis shows that 84% of materials targeted by the kerbside dry recycling service in Wales was recycled, an increase of 12 percentage points compared to 2015.

• The analysis shows an increase of 7 percentage points in the proportion of food waste collected for recycling at kerbside compared to 2015.

WRAP’s annual report 2022/23

• Independent evaluation of WRAP’s work shows reduction in UK annual greenhouse gas emissions of almost 5M tonnes CO2eq (2019/20).
• Food: Food Waste Action Week in 12 countries; ‘Best Before’ dates removed from thousands of products; world-leading Scope 3 protocol launched.
• Plastics: Colombian Plastics Pact launches; UK Plastics Pact members cut ‘problem plastics’ by 84%; Resource Action Fund saves 11,500t of plastic from landfill.
• Textiles: 115 signatories to Textiles 2030 including clothing companies, brands and retailers, trade bodies and recycling & recuse organisations; WRAP report informs textiles Extended Producer Responsibility.
• Circular economy: WRAP’s seven strategies for G7 emissions; Circular Economy Fund helps manufacturers produce more products with recycled content and so saved more than 8,200 tonnes CO2.

International climate action NGO WRAP continues key changes across its senior leadership team with the appointment of two new trustees to its board. They replace Robert Longley-Cook, Jim Oatridge and Sachin Kapila, whose terms of office have ended.  

Today the European Commission announced steps to tackle food waste and textiles, as part of its European Green Deal and Circular Economy for Textiles.

WRAP is delighted to be a project partner in the UKFT led £4 million project to develop and pilot a pioneering fully-integrated, automated sorting and pre-processing demonstrator for waste textiles (ATSP), which could eventually divert thousands of tonnes from landfill each year.