Resources
A case study detailing Re-Gen’s decision to adopt an environmental management system (ISO 14001) to help win customers and streamline operations.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The Recycle Now programme commissioned research to explore people’s barriers to recycling at home. This report forms part of our guidance to Local Authorities on how to create more informative, pursuasive and engaging communications campaigns.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A communications activity to develop best practice guidance for capturing metals at the kerbside between WRAP, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the Beverage Can Makers Europe (and their partners Novelis Recycling and Tata Steel).
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
There are a number of relevant reports and resources concerning glass collection available for both collectors and businesses. These may help you consider your role in the process.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Dry materials
- Hospitality and food service
- Local Authorities
This report looks at ways of making food waste collection services more efficient and more affordable to businesses, with the aim of increasing take up and diverting more food waste from landfill.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Waste management and reprocessors
These good practice guides are aimed at waste management companies and local authorities to encourage the collection of food waste from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), public sector organisations, and larger businesses.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This guide aims to help waste management companies understand how best to meet the food waste collection service requirements of NHS hospitals.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
WRAP’s household waste collection commitment worked with local authorities to make a commitment to the first set of principles for a good waste and recycling service based on the views of the public.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
This guide offers ideas and opportunities for all those involved in the management of household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs). It is aimed at all those involved in the management of HWRCs, including local authority officers, waste-management companies and third-sector re-use partners.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This case study describes how the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) has successfully introduced the collection of PTTs at the kerbside, as part of a strategic review of its recycling and waste services.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
The WRAP commercial and household waste/recycling ‘apportionment tool’ assists local authorities to calculate the proportion of waste and recycling when it is co-collected on the same vehicle.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This case study demonstrates how Cambridge City Council, along with Huntingdonshire District Council and Fenland District Council, as two other district partners from Recycle for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (RECAP), were able to formalise the acceptance of PTTs (Pots, Tubs and Trays) collected at the kerbside for material recycling facility (MRF) processing.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities