Resources
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
Increasing the amount of food surplus that is redistributed from food businesses is a key strand of the strategy to reduce food waste, to deliver the Courtauld Commitment 2025 (Courtauld 2025) target and ultimately the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3. There has been a significant increase in activities aimed at achieving this, with good progress being made over recent years (Surplus Food Redistribution in the UK; 2015 to 2017).
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld 2025
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
This document provides a summary of the methodology for the Household Simulation Model (HHSim).
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
These appendices provide supporting information to the Household food waste collections guide.
- Food and drink
- Local Authorities
The following organisations have committed to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap and the Target, Measure, Act principles.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld 2025
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Trade associations
This guidance provides detailed advice and practical examples on approaches for measuring food waste in effluent streams, primarily for food producers and manufacturers, supporting delivery of the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld 2025
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Manufacturers
- Waste management and reprocessors
WRAP’s mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, resource-efficient economy through:
- re-inventing how we design, produce and sell products
- re-thinking how we use and consume products
- re-defining what is possible through re-use and recycling
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld 2025
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- Funding
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- TRIFOCAL
- Refresh
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Textiles 2030
- ECAP
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Commercial waste
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Re-use
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Market snapshots
- Gate fees
- UN SDG 12.5
- Electricals
- Product durability
- Minimising product returns
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
This document sets out to clarify the differences between the materials used to make plastic packaging, the way plastics can behave and, the terminology used to describe plastics.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Manufacturers
Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) have a key role to play in the creation of high-quality/high-value recyclate streams that can be used as feedstock materials by a range of industries. The implementation of effective Quality Management Systems (QMS) can support this through consistency of approach, risk management and commercial differentiation.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
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.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
In order to plan the best ways of providing or improving a food waste and recycling service to flats, it is useful to understand some of the factors that make flats unique from other properties.
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
Consulting with stakeholders is essential in order to secure their support and identify any additional resources they might provide. This section:
- Provides a step-by-step guide for consulting with stakeholders
- Identifies different stakeholders and their usual motivations (drivers)
- Outlines approaches to consultation
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities