Resources
Presenting our 2019-20 annual report. A year on from our inaugural annual report where we published our 2018 baseline data we can now present our 2019 data highlights and member actions.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Re-use
- Re-use and recycling
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
New report demonstrates good progress being made across all three targets – food waste, carbon and water – in a challenging year for food and drink.
- Agile response by signatories to COVID-19 sees new partnerships brokered, over £4m awarded to surplus food sector, and new ‘Best Before’ guidance for surplus food.
- New Courtauld 2025 Supply Chain GHG Working Group convened to help make faster and more effective progress towards reducing GHG emissions in supply chains.
- Collective action catchment projects mobilised under Courtauld 2025 Water Ambition.
- New citizen-facing brand Wasting Food: It’s Out of Date helps citizens make the link between wasted food and climate change.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Prepared by the World Bank and WRAP on behalf of the government of Mexico, the Conceptual Framework brings together the data on food loss and waste in Mexico for the first time, painting a compelling picture of the current situation an creating a framework for action.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Unsustainable production and consumption of food constitutes one of the biggest environmental threats to our planet. Eliminating food loss and waste to the largest extent possible – at all stages from producer to consumer – stands out as an urgent and indispensable step towards more sustainable food systems.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
This report outlines the main activities and achievements to deliver the Safety, Health and Environment objectives for WRAP. It covers the period April 2018 to March 2019.
- Behaviour change interventions
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
The UK Plastics Pact is leading a global wave of change in the way we make, use, reuse and dispose of plastic. The UK's model is being replicated in other countries to form a powerful global movement as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy initiative. Since April 2018 the Pact has made meaningful progress working towards the four ambitious targets.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
The Courtauld Commitment Water Ambition progress report sets out:
- The physical, commercial and reputational risks facing UK food and drink businesses linked to water needs in their supply chains.
- Steps businesses can take to reduce their exposure to water risks.
- A ready-made framework of collective action projects in key sourcing locations which supply more than 2/3 of the UK’s vegetables (excluding potatoes) and 1/3 of the UK’s fruit.
- Food and drink
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
- Non-governmental organisations
Updated figures for surplus food redistribution via charities and commercial outlets from retail, manufacturing and the hospitality & food service sector for the three year period 2015-2018.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Hospitality and food service
- Non-governmental organisations
Prepared on behalf of Champions 12.3, a new report finds a compelling business case for action on food waste prevention in the catering industry.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Hospitality and food service
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Sustainable Development Goals
Momentum growing, but more still needed
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Prepared on behalf of Champions 12.3, The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste analyses the financial impacts of historical food loss and waste reduction efforts.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Hospitality and food service
- Retailers and brands
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
The report, which has been developed with leading figures in the food supply chain, includes:
- The risks to the UK food system over the next 10 years if we don't embrace a business unusual approach to the way we manufacture, sell and consume food;
- The huge wealth of opportunities that developing a Flexible, Intelligent and Transparent (FIT) supply chain will open to the sector; and
- How a "business unusual" approach will enable the sector to respond flexibly to changes in demand and weather patterns, with a transparent supply chain that will limit food scares and scandals.
- Food and drink
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations