Resources

A guide about establishing re-use as a strategic priority for local authorities and their partners.  It provides a step-by-step approach for building a case for a re-use strategy and the environmental, social and economic benefits this can bring. 

Good menu planning can be a great way of preventing food waste within your organisation and to help put profits on the bottom line.

How to develop food promotions that won’t contribute to increased food waste.

This report provides an assessment of how food waste levels have changed historically in the UK, and the potential impact of a range of ‘exogenous’ factors and interventions on food waste levels in the future.

WRAP, INCPEN, The Packaging Federation, the Food and Drink Federation, Kent Waste Partnership and the British Retail Consortium carried out independent research into consumers’ attitudes, behaviours and motivations around food waste and food packaging, to better understand how to help reduce the amount of food thrown away.

The Extending Clothing Life Protocol is a set of guides and principles to aid clothes designers and manufacturers in creating longer lasting clothing.

This section shows how your communication methods cover a wide range of individual activities. Once you have decided on your overall strategy and selected the mix of communication methods to use, you need to look in detail at the communications activities you need to deliver your strategy’s objectives. 

This target audience section helps you to identify and describe your target audience. You must be clear about the target audience for your communications and keep them as the focus of your effort at all stages.  

This planning your activities section looks at the process of putting your ideas into a coherent implementation plan and provides you with a mechanism to ensure that all activities are completed on time and within budget. 

The next stage in the communications planning cycle is to select the strategy and communications methods most appropriate to achieving your aim and objectives. This section helps you look at your overall approach, the issues to consider in different operational situations and how to choose the most appropriate mix of communication methods for your situation. You should start by considering your overall strategic approach and consider which main communication methods to use. This section takes you through this process and looks at the types of communication methods and how to use them to use to support services in different situations and target different audiences. 

This monitoring and evaluation section shows that it is part of a continuous process of learning and improvement that enables you to assess the performance of your communications against your aim and objectives. 

This guide is intended for Research and Development Directors within retailers, brand-owners and manufacturers. It provides guidance for product design and development teams to initiate and develop a process for embedding sustainability in product design in R&D programmes.