Resources

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound effect on citizens’ daily lives, including wide-reaching impacts on food behaviours. WRAP undertook a comprehensive series of four UK-wide surveys – in April, May, September and November 2020 – to understand how it has affected citizens’ food habits, behaviours and attitudes. Each of the surveys were undertaken online with large (4,000+) independent samples of UK adults with responsibility for food shopping and/or preparation.

This report is for businesses seeking to make improvements to packaging design by taking a systemic view of material choices to lower the environmental impacts of packaging.

A world where resources are used sustainably. This is our vision. And this plan tells you what we will do to get there.

Presenting our 2019-20 annual report. A year on from our inaugural annual report where we published our 2018 baseline data we can now present our 2019 data highlights and member actions. 

A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.

The UK Plastics Pact is leading a global wave of change in the way we make, use, reuse and dispose of plastic. The UK's model is being replicated in other countries to form a powerful global movement as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy initiative. Since April 2018 the Pact has made meaningful progress working towards the four ambitious targets.

Evidence Project Findings from Phase 1 & 2 - Surveys of Manufacturers, Redistributors and Hospitality and Food Service Sector.

The Courtauld Commitment Water Ambition progress report sets out:

• The physical, commercial and reputational risks facing UK food and drink businesses linked to water needs in their supply chains.
• Steps businesses can take to reduce their exposure to water risks.
• A ready-made framework of collective action projects in key sourcing locations which supply more than 2/3 of the UK’s vegetables (excluding potatoes) and 1/3 of the UK’s fruit.

This short research note provides updated (2015) estimates for food surplus and waste in wholesale grocery sector, including cash and carry, and specialist wholesale markets.

This report is a quantification of the true cost of food waste in the UK’s Hospitality and Food Service industry.

More recent headline figures for food waste in the sector have been published in the Courtauld Commitment 2025 Milestone Progress Report.