Resources
This guidance details the use of food-based digestate across a diverse range of markets in the landscape and regeneration sectors.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
WRAP has produced the latest UK recyclability guidance on how to design and place onto the UK market rigid plastic packaging (such as non-drink bottles, and pots, tubs and trays) that is as recyclable as possible.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
In this project, WRAP investigated the scope to increase the proportion of recycled fibre used by magazine publishing to ensure long-term end markets for recovered fibre. Increased demand and use of recycled content paper will increase the diversion of paper from landfill, and improve the likelihood of investment in new recycled content paper capacity.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Manufacturers
A case study detailing how the Bywaters plant in East London optimises output quality using different line speeds and equipment settings depending on the mix of the feedstock material.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
A case study detailing the success Reading’s Material Recycling Facility (MRF) is having with its automatically sorted plastics.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Manufacturers
A case study detailing the halving of material entering the residual waste stream at Milton Keynes Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A case study detailing Re-Gen’s decision to adopt an environmental management system (ISO 14001) to help win customers and streamline operations.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A case study detailing the success at Exeter City Council’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) with the introduction of an optical sorter to maintain quality of feedstock being processed and improve the quality of output material.
- Minimising product returns
- Waste management and reprocessors
A case study detailing how investment in Greenstar’s MRF enables the production of top quality material outputs from recyclables supplied in both co-mingled and source-segregated streams.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Manufacturers
A communications activity to develop best practice guidance for capturing metals at the kerbside between WRAP, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the Beverage Can Makers Europe (and their partners Novelis Recycling and Tata Steel).
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
This case study describes how the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) has successfully introduced the collection of PTTs at the kerbside, as part of a strategic review of its recycling and waste services.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
This guide provides a step by step approach to developing a re-use baseline and using it to monitor and evaluate progress.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations