Resources

This tool highlights the potential scale of opportunities for resource efficiency in fresh produce supply chains.

WRAP, INCPEN, The Packaging Federation, the Food and Drink Federation, Kent Waste Partnership and the British Retail Consortium carried out independent research into consumers’ attitudes, behaviours and motivations around food waste and food packaging, to better understand how to help reduce the amount of food thrown away.

The Extending Clothing Life Protocol is a set of guides and principles to aid clothes designers and manufacturers in creating longer lasting clothing.

This guide is intended for Research and Development Directors within retailers, brand-owners and manufacturers. It provides guidance for product design and development teams to initiate and develop a process for embedding sustainability in product design in R&D programmes.

Beverage production creates organic arisings, the bulk of which is classed as a by-product. The majority of this material is used as animal feed but different recovery options are available.

This tool enables you to estimate the environmental and economic impacts of re-using selected products in the UK.

A report that evaluates ways of reducing levels of fresh potato waste along the retail supply chain and in the household. It includes a consumer survey, storage trial, packaging trials and in-store training.

Updated Household Food Waste Figures
More recent headline data on food waste for this sector was published by WRAP in May 2018

November 2011

Research shows that annual UK household food and drink waste has fallen by 1.1 million tonnes (13%) over a three year period from 8.3 million tonnes to an estimated 7.2 million tonnes. This avoided food and drink waste would fill the Wembley Stadium in London to the brim.

Explore the many advantages of bulk wine importation that can be harnessed for the benefit of businesses, consumers and the environment.

A market survey of packaging formats and other retailer and in-home solutions to help consumers manage their food inventory better.

This report explores the relationship between the level of avoidable food and drink waste from households in the UK and factors including socio-demographics, behaviours and others relating to food, such as healthy eating and time available for food-related activities.