Resources

The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.

Guidance for farmers, growers, advisers and agricultural contractors on how to maximise the benefits of using digestate and compost as renewable fertilisers.

This guidance details the use of food-based digestate across a diverse range of markets in the landscape and regeneration sectors.

These guides take the reader through communicating re-use and the process step-by-step to support the delivery of effective communications.

This guide informs anyone funding or running HWRC sites of the options and opportunities available when introducing or improving re-use services. See download for the 2016 review of HWRC re-use shops.

This guide provides an overview of the steps required to procure a good practice bulky waste service that maximises re-use.

This guide sets out how to produce a re-use action plan which is a key element of any re-use strategy. It addresses the who, how, what and when of the actions needed that will ultimately deliver your objectives.

This guide provides a step by step approach to developing a re-use baseline and using it to monitor and evaluate progress.  

This guide will help you to identify what can be achieved, engage with stakeholders, set up frames of reference and an action plan. It includes examples and case studies of re-use from across the UK and a handy 'lessons' learnt' section.

Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.

The following page lists items that are more commonly re-used.