Press releases
The latest figures for surplus food redistribution in the UK show that the amount of food saved from becoming waste continues to rise significantly. But climate action NGO WRAP, which monitors UK surplus food as part of its food waste prevention work, warns that each year nearly 200,000 tonnes of perfectly good food still go to waste in the supply chain.
WRAP is delighted to have been awarded the Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year at the 2022 FREDIE awards (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement), organised by the National Centre for Diversity.
- Recycle Now launches theme for Recycle Week 2022
- Coca-Cola GB, Danone, innocent, McDonald's UK and Ocado announced as first sponsors, with more on the way
The Accelerating Growth Fund Ltd (AGF), a subsidiary of climate action NGO WRAP, today announced a first key investment made on behalf of the Future of Plastics Fund, a new Circular Economy impact fund being established by Archipelago Eco Investors to focus on the interlinked issues of plastic waste and climate.
This first investment on behalf of the Future of Plastics Fund is into Greyparrot, a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Waste Recognition System and Analytics Platform which will enable better sorting of plastics and other waste streams.
- WRAP develops world’s first methodology to accurately measure and report food and drink GHG emissions consistently in a huge advance in the fight against climate change.
- 15 Courtauld 2030 signatories, from suppliers to high street retailers, testing protocols to accelerate progress on scope 3 accounting across the sector.
- UK pioneers work to inform international approach to consistent measuring and reporting of scope 3 GHG emissions.
- In just 10 months, Textiles 2030 has commitment on environmental targets from retailers and brands making up almost two thirds of clothing placed on the UK market.
- Latest signatories eBay, River Island and Oliver Bonas represent three key parts of industry - home textiles, circular economy innovators and brands pledging to reduce carbon and water footprints and accelerate circularity in the UK.
- The updated Textiles 2030 Footprint tool now measures the environmental impact of home textiles products.
- TV presenter JJ Chalmers joins Recycle Now and Clear on Plastics to encourage people to recycle plastic bags and wrapping at front of store in a new nationwide ‘Repeat the Cycle’ campaign, launching today.
- 4,000 supermarkets across the UK now collect clean, used household plastic bags and wrapping for recycling at front of store.
- One of the ‘last plastics’* in our bins - plastic bags and wrapping make up 22% of plastic packaging but unlike many other plastics are not widely collected at kerbside, meaning only 6% is recycled**.