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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This section summarises the options available for the treatment of household food waste collected for recycling (‘Anaerobic Digestion’ and ‘In-vessel composting’).

What costs are involved in a food recycling collection?

The choice of collection vehicles and how they are operated by crews is critical in developing efficient and cost-effective food waste collection services.

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.

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.