Resources

Guide
17 June 2013

This target audience section helps you to identify and describe your target audience. You must be clear about the target audience for your communications and keep them as the focus of your effort at all stages.  

Initiatives:
  • Consumer behaviour
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Guide
17 June 2013

This section shows how your communication methods cover a wide range of individual activities. Once you have decided on your overall strategy and selected the mix of communication methods to use, you need to look in detail at the communications activities you need to deliver your strategy’s objectives. 

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Report
1 June 2013

In 2012, WRAP undertook a consumer survey and qualitative discussion groups to identify barriers to, and opportunities for, food and drink waste prevention in restaurants, pubs, quick service restaurants, hotels, staff restaurants and leisure venues.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
Sector:
  • Hospitality and food service
Guide
1 May 2013

This guide is intended for Research and Development Directors within retailers, brand-owners and manufacturers. It provides guidance for product design and development teams to initiate and develop a process for embedding sustainability in product design in R&D programmes.

Initiatives:
  • Electricals
  • Product durability
  • Re-use and recycling
Sector:
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
Report
11 March 2013
Initiatives:
  • Guardians of Grub
Sector:
  • Hospitality and food service
Report
1 January 2013

This report describes research that models the impact of purchases and consumption on waste levels. The model simulates a household over time and estimates the impact on waste levels of various decisions made relating to shopping, storing and consumption of milk.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Measuring and reporting food waste
Sector:
  • Retailers and brands
Case study
14 November 2012

In September 2011, Unilever Food Solutions, in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association, launched the ‘United Against Waste Toolkit’ to help the food service industry reduce its food waste.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
Sector:
  • Hospitality and food service
Report
1 August 2012

Workers carrying out collections of glass for recycling can be exposed to high levels of noise. This report provides information to employers and client authorities on the noise levels experienced by waste collection operatives on a variety of collection systems.

Initiatives:
  • Collections and sorting
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Case study
12 June 2012

Beverage production creates organic arisings, the bulk of which is classed as a by-product. The majority of this material is used as animal feed but different recovery options are available.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
Sector:
  • Manufacturers
Tool
19 April 2012

This tool enables you to estimate the environmental and economic impacts of re-using selected products in the UK.

Initiatives:
  • Textiles
  • Re-use & recycling
  • Collections & recycling
  • Re-use
  • Electricals
  • Re-use and recycling
Sector:
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
  • Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities
Report
3 April 2012

An update to the 2006 report, reviewing high quality Life Cycle Assessments from around the world to assess the impact of alternative waste management options for a range of materials, and discuss the findings for each material in the context of the UK.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
  • Commercial waste
  • Material Recovery Facilities
  • Recovered materials markets
Sector:
  • Waste management and reprocessors
Case study
12 January 2012

A report that evaluates ways of reducing levels of fresh potato waste along the retail supply chain and in the household. It includes a consumer survey, storage trial, packaging trials and in-store training.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Fresh produce sector
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Manufacturers