Resources

Setting out the UK’s vision for best in class design in rigid household plastic packaging. Includes plastic packaging currently classed as recyclable and the ambition for recycled content. 

Updated Guidance: March 2021 

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.

An introductory webinar on how textiles and fashion businesses can reduce the environmental footprint of the products they sell. 

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.

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.

Participation in household food waste collections typically is lower than participation in other recycling services.

Public support is vital to the success of any food waste collection scheme. How householders view their local service has a major impact on participation.