Resources
A guide to setting and maintaining quality specifications.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Fresh produce sector
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
This guidance helps reduce consumer food waste, with a focus on fresh pork, beef and lamb. It covers advice and insights on changes to products, packs, labels and retail.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Meat, poultry and fish
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
This visual guide has been produced to help illustrate examples of how the recommendations in this guidance could look, be applied and, specifically, which labelling and design features are most effective in helping consumers reduce fresh chicken waste.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Food date labelling
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
These guidelines have been written to help composters who want to supply the horticultural growing media market meet the quality standards required by this sector.
- Collections & recycling
- Farmers and growers
‘PAS110’ was developed by WRAP to help create a market for the use of anaerobic digestate as a renewable fertiliser.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Farmers and growers
Anaerobic digestion processing systems operate in different ways. For example, material may be fed into a reactor in distinct batches, or in a continuous flow.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Farmers and growers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
IVCs can be used to treat food and garden waste mixtures. These systems ensure that composting takes place in an enclosed environment, with accurate temperature control and monitoring.
- Collections & recycling
- Farmers and growers
Windrow composting is used for processing garden waste, such as grass cuttings, pruning and leaves in either an open air environment or within large covered areas where the material can break down in the presence of oxygen.
- Reuse and refill
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Waste management and reprocessors
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
This guide provides practical advice to compost producers about the production of quality composts that are consistently fit for purpose as growing media constituents. It also aims to inform growing media manufacturers and growers about quality composts and how they can be used in growing media.
- Collections & recycling
- Farmers and growers
- Waste management and reprocessors
This report provides an assessment of how food waste levels have changed historically in the UK, and the potential impact of a range of ‘exogenous’ factors and interventions on food waste levels in the future.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities