Resources

The Business Recycling and Waste Services Commitment was set-up to help you improve your business customers' satisfaction with how their rubbish and recycling is collected and ultimately boost recycling rates.

There are a number of potential barriers which prevent householders participating in re-use.

One of the main barriers to donation of items for re-use is a lack of knowledge about what services are available or a lack of facilities for donation. Local authorities can encourage donation by providing information about donation options and also be supporting the re-use organisations who will receive the donations.

WRAP have produced a series of step-by-step guides aimed at encouraging more partnerships between local authorities, waste management companies and third sector organisations to deliver more re-use.

By repairing or re-using goods which still retain some operational value there are social, financial and environmental benefits in comparison to producing a brand new product.  

The Hub provides local authorities with a comprehensive online resource to enable them to produce a Waste Prevention plan and to help householders prevent waste.

This section describes the opportunities for re-use of electrical and electronic products that would otherwise be discarded.

The main types of waste prevention activity covered by the Household Waste Prevention Hub are outlined below.

The Furniture Re-use Network (FRN) indicates that around 30% of bulky waste collected from householders and/or collected at the HWRCs can be re-used. 

This section sets out reasons why waste prevention should be integral to any waste strategy.

Some or all advertising mail items can be judged as unwanted; this can include addressed and unaddressed items, flyers and free newspapers.

Waste prevention defined, as seen in the Waste Framework Directive.