Resources
This Good Practice Guide provides a range of ways to make your website waste and recycling pages as user friendly and engaging as possible, along with suggestions for making the business case to enable changes and improvements with the buy in of key stakeholders.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
This comprehensive Guide to Contract Procurement and Management has been developed by WRAP as a manual to set out the steps required in contract procurement and management, to support local authority officers.
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
National agreement from the recycling industry on what can and cannot be collected for recycling from householders and how those materials should be presented for collection.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This section draws on the findings from pilots WRAP undertook with 11 local authorities between 2013 and 2015 to assess the effectiveness of simple cost-effective intervention measures aimed at increasing food waste for recycling.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This guide provides local authorities with information on the collection of household food waste as a means of diverting material from landfill or other residual waste treatment. It updates the 2009 guide and pulls together the findings from more recent studies and pilots conducted by WRAP and others.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
Textiles take-back schemes, where customers donate unwanted clothing to retailers to be re-used or recycled, are a key part of developing a more circular fashion industry.
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
Providing practical ways for householders to manage food waste in the kitchen as well as for storing food waste outside the house is important in encouraging householders to engage with a food waste collection service.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This section summarises the options available for the treatment of household food waste collected for recycling (‘Anaerobic Digestion’ and ‘In-vessel composting’).
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
What costs are involved in a food recycling collection?
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Organics
- Local Authorities
The choice of collection vehicles and how they are operated by crews is critical in developing efficient and cost-effective food waste collection services.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
The successful implementation of a new household food waste collection service is of paramount importance to its ongoing effectiveness in terms of collection efficiencies and householder participation.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Organics
- Local Authorities
Providing householders with a service that encourages food waste collection is important but communicating how the service needs to be used is vital to increasing participation.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities