Resources
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
In 2020 WRAP carried out an options appraisal on behalf of a medium sized Waste Collection Authority in the midlands to compare the cost and performance of a range of collection scenarios in preparation for necessary changes to its household waste collection service.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This programme of research addresses the lack of quality data on household and municipal waste collected by local authorities in the UK. It looks at the quantity of different materials in mixed residual waste in order to broaden the data available, and to support policy development. Five outputs have been derived from this research, outlined below.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
WRAP has launched a series of market situation reports providing in-depth information on the latest economic trends and developments facing the UK’s recycling industry. Each report focuses on a different material stream and is presented in a compact, easily digestible format.
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Waste management and reprocessors
- 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 report explores the existing evidence about the effectiveness of providing factual information (including content, source and format) on the environmental sustainability of a product, and its impact in influencing consumer (individual and organisational) buying decisions.
- Service design
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Consumer behaviour
- Manufacturers
Field trials conducted during the 2017 growing season in the UK have shown how the use of smart technology, combined with training and greater supply chain collaboration, can help maximise crop yields.
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Retailers and brands
This report details the research into a standardised stability test method that is capable of being used to measure compost stability consistently in laboratory conditions and can be used as a standard test throughout the UK and potentially Europe.
- Collections & recycling
- Organics
- Farmers and growers
Guidance for farmers, growers, advisers and agricultural contractors on how to maximise the benefits of using digestate and compost as renewable fertilisers.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Organics
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
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
Whilst a good number of local authorities do collect household food and garden waste for large-scale composting and digestion operations, composting at home has the added benefit of avoiding transport impacts and producing a soil improver output which can be used in resident’s gardens.
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
WRAP’s Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) campaign provides useful reference and communications material that local authorities can draw on to promote food reduction in their area.
LFHW has its own dedicated consumer facing website containing a wealth of detailed ideas to help individuals, communities and organisations reduce food waste as well as the LFHW partner website containing free materials, templates, and resources for local authorities.
The Waste Prevention Hub provides an overview of a selection of that guidance. For the full details please visit the LFHW page or the dedicated the LFHW consumer website.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Organics
- Local Authorities