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
The Recycling Tracker is the largest and longest running survey on recycling attitudes, values and behaviours. The Spring 2021 survey had a detailed focus on contamination, with previous waves of the tracker pointing to an increasing trend.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
This webinar reviews the existing evidence and new qualitative research on why people contaminate and what are the implications for intervention development and local authority communications.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Consumer behaviour
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
These appendices provide supporting information to the Household food waste collections guide.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Organics
- Local Authorities
WRAP carried out research in 2012/13 to test communications aimed at:
- building awareness of the negative aspects of food waste; and,
- influencing behaviours to prevent food waste and increase the use of local authority food collection services.
This section of the Household Waste Prevention Hub provides a summary overview of the research report’s recommendations.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This section provides links to WRAP’s communications guidance. It provides both general and specific waste prevention communications guidance as well as case studies and pilots on successful communications activities.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
Effective communications will be tailored to suit different stakeholder groups and their different behaviours and motivations. Local authorities should work with local partners to push out communications and use national brands to build awareness on key waste prevention issues.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Re-use
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Understanding the motivations and behaviours of different stakeholders is essential to targeting the right messages to the right audiences.
As a local authority you may not be best placed to deliver messages to all audiences so it is important to look for partners who residents engage with.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Re-use
- Retailers and brands
- Local Authorities
Join Marketing Executive, Harriet Rockliff-Nally, in a simple walk-through of how to edit and adapt WRAP communications materials, using Adobe InDesign.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
In this webinar from July 2019, we share our learnings from the last 12 years on separate household food waste collections, to help local authorities to introduce collections for the first time.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This webinar was designed to help local authorities effectively plan and develop communications that support service changes, whether it’s the introduction of a new waste service or changes to existing recycling schemes.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
The focus of this guide is on the collection of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) from households through designated collection facilities (DCFs). It brings together existing information and explains the roles of different parties, particularly operators of approved DCFs, approved Producer Compliance Schemes (PCSs) and Local Authorities (LAs).
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations