Resources

An increasing number of local authorities are adding non-bottle rigid plastic packaging, comprising pots, tubs and trays, to existing kerbside recycling schemes. We have produced a guide which sets out key considerations, benefits and options of taking this approach.

In this project, WRAP investigated the scope to increase the proportion of recycled fibre used by magazine publishing to ensure long-term end markets for recovered fibre. Increased demand and use of recycled content paper will increase the diversion of paper from landfill, and improve the likelihood of investment in new recycled content paper capacity.

A case study detailing how the Bywaters plant in East London optimises output quality using different line speeds and equipment settings depending on the mix of the feedstock material.

A case study detailing the success Reading’s Material Recycling Facility (MRF) is having with its automatically sorted plastics. 

A case study detailing the halving of material entering the residual waste stream at Milton Keynes Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).

A case study detailing Re-Gen’s decision to adopt an environmental management system (ISO 14001) to help win customers and streamline operations.

A case study researching potential improvements in the reprocessing of glass container contents through Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs). 

A case study detailing the success at Exeter City Council’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) with the introduction of an optical sorter to maintain quality of feedstock being processed and improve the quality of output material. 

A case study detailing how investment in Greenstar’s MRF enables the production of top quality material outputs from recyclables supplied in both co-mingled and source-segregated streams. 

A communications activity to develop best practice guidance for capturing metals at the kerbside between WRAP, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the Beverage Can Makers Europe (and their partners Novelis Recycling and Tata Steel).

The Recycle Now programme commissioned research to explore people’s barriers to recycling at home. This report forms part of our guidance to Local Authorities on how to create more informative, pursuasive and engaging communications campaigns. 

This report highlights the need for action on food waste and provides concrete examples of how this can be achieved.