Resources

Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.

These field experiment reports for quality digestate and compost in agriculture provide a robust evidence base to support the confident use of digestate and composts as renewable fertilisers by farmers and growers.

The report, which has been developed with leading figures in the food supply chain, includes:

• The risks to the UK food system over the next 10 years if we don't embrace a business unusual approach to the way we manufacture, sell and consume food;
• The huge wealth of opportunities that developing a Flexible, Intelligent and Transparent (FIT) supply chain will open to the sector; and
• How a "business unusual" approach will enable the sector to respond flexibly to changes in demand and weather patterns, with a transparent supply chain that will limit food scares and scandals.

Working with the Welsh Government, WRAP Cymru is working to maximise the redistribution of surplus food during production and in the supply chain.

One of the key areas where surplus food can be redistributed to local organisations is from the back of retail stores. WRAP Cymru has partnered with a Sainsbury’s in Cardiff to undertake a back-of-store pilot project working with two local charities that can make use of the food surplus.

Getting employees engaged in a company’s quest to improve resource efficiency has proved to be a surefire winner. With many companies having run successful campaigns relating to energy and water, WRAP has produced the ‘Your Workplace Without Waste’ programme to help you tackle food and packaging waste in your business.

An agreement between the Scottish Government, Defra, the Welsh Government, and the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and its supermarket members.

Supported by WRAP, Brakes embarked on a project to analyse the annual waste arisings from its ambient, chilled and frozen depots in order to identify waste prevention opportunities.

Reducing syrup waste in soft drinks manufacture saves £117,000 a year.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) and British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) worked in collaboration with Britvic Soft Drinks and Carlsberg (UK) on a joint project to reduce the amount of ingredient and product waste being sent to sewer and to land injection in the brewing and soft drinks industries: ‘Project Shandy’.

In this case study we report on the successful collaborative approach taken by Greencore and Sainsbury’s in driving waste out of their sandwich supply chain.

A programme of whole chain resource efficiency Pathfinder projects. 

This work involves reviewing a range of products from the farm to the consumer, and how information in the chain is used to plan and drive production. 

One of the main barriers to donation of items for re-use is a lack of knowledge about what services are available or a lack of facilities for donation. Local authorities can encourage donation by providing information about donation options and also be supporting the re-use organisations who will receive the donations.