Resources

Guide
5 December 2022

This is a guide for local authority waste and recycling officers to help develop kerbside collection calendars. These are essential communication tools and provide householders with information about their waste and recycling collection frequency and instructions on how to participate.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Consistency in collections
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Guide
5 December 2022

The purpose of this guide is to raise awareness and understanding of print processes in common use and how they work.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
Sector:
  • Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities
Webinar
24 November 2022

This webinar introduces the new Love Food Hate Waste Toolkit, launched at the LARAC conference, and runs through the assets available to use, how and when to get the best out of them and provides an insight into the research behind their development.

The webinar is also a reminder of the dates for Food Waste Action Week 2023 and gives a few early pointers into the planning for the week of action – get it in your calendar and start planning your local events now.

With energy bills rising, help your residents save money by reducing food waste whilst having a positive impact on the environment.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Organics
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Report
17 October 2022

WRAP’s recycling tracker provides insights into UK citizen’s attitudes towards recycling as well as a greater understanding of their recycling related behaviours. It is an annual survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Contamination prevention
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
  • Recycling in urban areas
  • Dry materials
  • Organics
Sector:
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities
  • National government and departments
Webinar
13 October 2022

A webinar that discusses two new guides being published to help Local Authorities implement service changes effectively. It discusses the stages, timescales and milestones to be considered to successfully plan for and implement a major service change. 

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Service design
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Report
19 July 2022

WRAP’s recycling tracker provides insights into UK citizen’s attitudes towards recycling as well as a greater understanding of their recycling related behaviours. It is an annual survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Contamination prevention
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
  • Recycling in urban areas
  • Dry materials
  • Organics
Sector:
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities
  • National government and departments
Report
19 July 2022

The Recycling Tracker is the largest and longest running survey on recycling attitudes, values and behaviours.It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Service design
  • Communicating with residents
  • Contamination prevention
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
  • Dry materials
  • Organics
Sector:
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities
  • National government and departments
  • Non-governmental organisations
Webinar
23 June 2022

This webinar details WRAP's local authority support offering for the coming year to improve the quality and quantity of recycling.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Service design
  • Communicating with residents
  • Contamination prevention
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Webinar
23 June 2022

A webinar to support the launch of the Recycle Now toolkits and customisable assets that are available to download and customise for local use in England and Northern Ireland.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Guide
4 February 2022

This Good Practice Guide provides a range of ways to make your website waste and recycling pages as user friendly and engaging as possible, along with suggestions for making the business case to enable changes and improvements with the buy in of key stakeholders.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Webinar
10 December 2021

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.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Collections and sorting
  • Kerbside collection
Sector:
  • Local Authorities
Webinar
2 December 2021

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.

Initiatives:
  • Plastic Packaging
  • Eliminating problem plastics
  • The UK Plastics Pact
  • Film and flexible packaging
  • Collections & recycling
  • Communicating with residents
  • Contamination prevention
  • Kerbside collection
  • Re-use and recycling
Sector:
  • Local Authorities