Resources
WRAP works with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world in which resources are used sustainably. Read our April 2020-21 annual review to learn more about our mission to accelerate the move to a sustainable, resource-efficient economy.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- Funding
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- TRIFOCAL
- Refresh
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- ECAP
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Commercial waste
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Re-use
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Market snapshots
- Gate fees
- UN SDG 12.5
- Electricals
- Product durability
- Minimising product returns
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Circular Economy Fund
- Public Sector Procurement Support
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Our plan for achieving Net Zero.
This report unveils new insights on how resource efficiency and resource sufficiency can cut greenhouse gas emissions. Developed in collaboration with CREDS researchers at the University of Leeds, it offers a clear, practical roadmap which delivers quick wins.
- Plastic Packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Food and drink
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- Re-use
- Recovered materials markets
- Product durability
- Minimising product returns
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Textiles take-back schemes, where customers donate unwanted clothing to retailers to be re-used or recycled, are a key part of developing a more circular fashion industry.
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
Launched in 2012, The Sustainable Clothing Action Plan 2020 Commitment (SCAP 2020) set out to cut carbon, water and waste by influencing product design and manufacture, re-use and recycling.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- ECAP
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Trade associations
Transforming City FOod hAbits for Life
This initiative was led by Resource London - the partnership between WRAP and London Waste & Recycling Board - together with Groundwork London. The organisations won a bid to the LIFE programme of the European Commission to deliver the €3.2million initiative in London, which acted as a test bed for other European cities.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- TRIFOCAL
- UN SDG 12.3
- Consumer behaviour
- Hospitality and food service
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
A follow up survey to find out about textiles purchasing and disposal behaviours once the first nation-wide lockdown had eased over the summer and the impact on the textiles sector.
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- SCAP 2020
- Re-use
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
WRAP is a charity promoting a resource-efficient future.
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Funding
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- UN SDG 12.5
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
WRAP’s mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, resource-efficient economy through:
- re-inventing how we design, produce and sell products
- re-thinking how we use and consume products
- re-defining what is possible through re-use and recycling
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- Funding
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- TRIFOCAL
- Refresh
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- ECAP
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Commercial waste
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Re-use
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Market snapshots
- Gate fees
- UN SDG 12.5
- Electricals
- Product durability
- Minimising product returns
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main social drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Water stewardship
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers