Resources

A webinar discussing how to maximise the effectiveness of your website and your social media channels in order to engage with residents on waste and recycling issues - crucial in these times of ever restrictive communications budgets and a higher than ever reliance on the public to source information from digital channels.

In this webinar you will hear about the latest national campaign from WRAP's citizen behaviour team, set to go live in March 2022, encouraging citizens to recycle plastic bags and wrapping at supermarket front of store locations, following the rollout of collections by retailers.

Our third Annual Report provides the most complete picture of action on tackling plastic packaging waste in the UK. It combines aggregated Pact member data from right across the supply chain, with examples of members progress against the targets. This enables us pinpoint where specific action is needed.

So, three years in, what does the picture look like?

Since 2011, WRAP Cymru’s Collaborative Change Programme (CCP) for Wales has offered strategic and technical support to help local authorities develop and deliver detailed plans to achieve the outcomes of Wales’ waste strategy, Towards Zero Waste – One Wales, One Planet: overarching waste strategy.

Join some of the team to share the lessons they have learnt and to discuss the part they are playing in helping Wales to reach their ambitions to become the world leader in recycling.

The 2021 Plastics Market situation report provides in-depth information on the latest economic, market and regulatory trends affecting the capture and recycling of plastics. It explores key developments over the past few years and highlights the challenges and opportunities for the decade ahead.

WRAP asked Local Authority Officers about training and resource requirements to meet the many challenges proposed in the Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy. This webinar covers what Officers told us in the survey and provides an insight into WRAP’s Local Authority Support team’s project plans for the forthcoming year and the wealth of support that LAs can tap into.

National agreement from the recycling industry on what can and cannot be collected for recycling from householders and how those materials should be presented for collection.

This review examines current information, both WRAP published work and externally published work, to provide an evidence base around the effectiveness of on-pack recycling information to encourage citizen recycling behaviours. It also contains short recommendations on how on-pack recycling information may be improved based on the information found in the existing literature.

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.

In June 2020, 40 key stakeholders from across the UK meat production and supply chain came together, facilitated by WRAP's Courtauld Commitment, to pledge to make the UK meat industry one of the most efficient and sustainable in the world. This summary highlights the areas of significant progress made and the areas that require greater focus.

This is the twentieth publication of data under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (Schedule 9), relating to the reporting period, October – December (Q4) 2019, and represents over 5 years of data reporting by MF operators.

The summary statistics presented in this commentary are intended to be representative of the MFs who have submitted the quarterly return. In England 85 facilities notified the Regulator (in accordance with the Regulations) for October – December 2019, of which all 85 submitted a quarterly data return. In Wales, 12 facilities notified the Regulator, of which all 12 submitted returns.

This document is a constructive road map with clear objectives and actions for local authorities, organic processors, policy makers and regulators that puts in place actions that will reduce contamination of feedstocks for organic processors, increase recycling rates, increase feedstock supply and protect the environment.