Resources

This section looks at the information you need to gather to assess your current position and carry out a situational analysis (the next stage of the strategy development process).

• The area and the people living in it – who they are, how old they are, where they live, what types of houses they live in, what their lifestyles are.
• How well they use the local recycling and waste management services.
• What are their barriers to recycling?

A practical guide to improving recycling performance through effective communications with your residents.

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.

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.

Monitoring the impact of communications is essential to determine what has been effective and demonstrate the value and success of communications activity.

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.

The purpose of this guide is to raise awareness and understanding of print processes in common use and how they work.

Through The UK Plastics Pact we are redesigning the plastics system, working across the entire plastics value chain to reduce its climate impact, by stopping plastic waste, and the harmful emissions of new plastic production, keeping the material in the economy and out of the environment.

We are over halfway to The UK Plastics Pact targets and our 2021-22 annual report gives an honest appraisal of progress and challenges. 

This webinar introduces the new Love Food Hate Waste Toolkit, launched at the LARAC conference, and runs through the assets available to use, how and when to get the best out of them and provides an insight into the research behind their development.

The webinar is also a reminder of the dates for Food Waste Action Week 2023 and gives a few early pointers into the planning for the week of action – get it in your calendar and start planning your local events now.

With energy bills rising, help your residents save money by reducing food waste whilst having a positive impact on the environment.

Setting out the UK’s vision for best in class design in rigid household plastic packaging. Includes plastic packaging currently classed as recyclable and the ambition for recycled content. 

Updated Guidance: November 2022 

WRAP’s recycling tracker provides insights into UK citizen’s attitudes towards recycling as well as a greater understanding of their recycling related behaviours. It is an annual survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.

A webinar that discusses two new guides being published to help Local Authorities implement service changes effectively. It discusses the stages, timescales and milestones to be considered to successfully plan for and implement a major service change.