Resources
A practical guide to improving recycling performance through effective communications with your residents.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
A review of plastic waste management practices, life cycle assessments, challenges and opportunities
This report provides an overview of current waste management practices for plastic waste in the UK and critically reviews end of life plastic waste life cycle assessments to highlight best practice waste management methods. The report further identifies challenges and potential solutions to help move UK plastic waste up the waste hierarchy.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Waste management and end markets
- Re-use and recycling
In order to implement a real circular economy, we need to change the way we produce, consume and dispose of our products. The Accelerator Session ‘Plastics: from a linear problem to circular solutions’ will be delivered in collaboration by WRAP, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank on the 8th December under the frame of the 2022 World Circular Economy Forum (6th-8th December 2022) held in Kigali, Rwanda. This remote Accelerator Session will focus on the much-discussed issue of plastics, showing new data about the effect of plastic waste mismanagement and discussing the actions that many stakeholders and innovators are taking to explore and implement solutions.
- Global Plastics Pacts
The purpose of this guide is to:
- Raise awareness and understanding of the design process needed when developing recycling promotions.
- Signpost you to other guidance documents available to help you plan your communications.
- Provide advice on how to work with a design agency or internal design team to develop and deliver promotional material and the timescales involved.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
This document aims to help you estimate the cost of communications activities. The indicative costs will help you develop an initial budget for your communications and give you an indication of what is acceptable value for money.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
Monitoring the impact of communications is essential to determine what has been effective and demonstrate the value and success of communications activity.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
This is a guide for local authority waste and recycling officers to help develop kerbside collection calendars. These are essential communication tools and provide householders with information about their waste and recycling collection frequency and instructions on how to participate.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
The purpose of this guide is to raise awareness and understanding of print processes in common use and how they work.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Reaffirming the critical role that the food system has to play in reducing GHG emissions both in the UK and overseas.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Household food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
WRAP’s work on textiles is focussed on improving the sustainability of products, and particularly on reducing the environmental impact of the full life cycle of products, from cradle to grave.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- Textiles 2030
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
Working at all stages from farm to fork to improve efficiency and productivity, minimise waste, protect natural assets and reduce global warming.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Meat, poultry and fish
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
Tracking the UK's progress towards achieving the Courtauld 2030 food waste target and UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.
- 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