Resources

Guide
30 July 2018

Comparing the business case for table top and ground production systems.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Fresh produce sector
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
Guide
1 July 2018

A guide to setting and maintaining quality specifications.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Fresh produce sector
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Hospitality and food service
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
Guide
1 April 2018

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.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
  • Meat, poultry and fish
  • UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Hospitality and food service
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
  • Packaging producers
  • Trade associations
Guide
1 November 2017

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.

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
  • Food date labelling
  • Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
  • UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Hospitality and food service
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
  • Packaging producers
  • Trade associations
Report
28 September 2017

A preliminary study on strawberries and lettuces

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Measuring and reporting food waste
  • Surplus food redistribution
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
  • UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
Report
17 February 2017
Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Measuring and reporting food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
  • Household food waste
  • UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Hospitality and food service
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
  • National government and departments
Guide
24 January 2017

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. 

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
Guide
10 January 2017

‘PAS110’ was developed by WRAP to help create a market for the use of anaerobic digestate as a renewable fertiliser.

Initiatives:
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
Report
10 January 2017

The final report of achievements by signatories to the Courtauld Commitment 3 (CC3).

Initiatives:
  • Food and drink
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
  • Courtauld Commitment
  • Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
  • Guardians of Grub
  • UN SDG 12.3
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Hospitality and food service
  • Manufacturers
  • Retailers and brands
Guide
13 December 2016

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.

Initiatives:
  • Reuse and refill
  • Reducing and preventing food waste
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Waste management and reprocessors
Report
13 December 2016

This report was commissioned to close gaps in understanding of compost and digestate quality, to build confidence amongst potential compost and digestate users, and to identify any specific areas where improvements in quality might be considered desirable.

Initiatives:
  • Collections & recycling
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
Guide
13 December 2016

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.

Initiatives:
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Sector:
  • Farmers and growers
  • Waste management and reprocessors
  • Local Authorities