Resources
Expertise from the re-use and recycling sector is key in informing product design and end of life. Our Re-use and retailers signatory pack is a quick step tour of what Re-use and recycling organisations can expect as signatories of Textiles 2030, covering reasons to get involved, our ambitions and targets, as well as how to participate and what this entails.
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Textiles 2030
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Re-use and recycling
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
WRAP is a charity promoting a resource-efficient future.
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Funding
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- UN SDG 12.5
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Note: From 31 March 2023, WRAP will archive Love Your Clothes due to a change in funding priorities and following feedback from our Textiles 2030 Citizen Working Group. The focus will instead be on providing businesses and brands with straightforward citizen messaging.
- Textiles
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
This section highlights other cross-cutting drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan. It covers:
- The Compact
- Localism, and
- National Indicators
- Waste management and end markets
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Re-use & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This section highlights the main social drivers in planning, establishing and maintaining a waste prevention plan.
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Water stewardship
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
Identification of and recommendations to overcome barriers to the development of post-consumer, closed loop clothing recycling in the UK.
- Waste management and end markets
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
The benefits of face-to-face exchanges when it comes to re-using household items.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations