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
Protecting critical water resources for food supply, for nature and for local communities.
- Food and drink
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
There has never been a better time for forward thinking businesses to get ahead of regulation. There is a business imperative to collaborate, innovate and find ways to create both impact and commercial opportunity. The challenge is to go beyond targets by delivering practical changes that go beyond ‘greenwash’.
- Courtauld Commitment
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
‘Circularity’ is becoming a buzzword in the fashion industry. But what does this actually mean for fashion & textile businesses?
How does circularity fit into wider conversations on sustainable and responsible business, and on reducing the textiles industry’s impact on the environment?
- Textiles
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
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
The way we style our homes is becoming increasingly important to us. The market for home décor is accelerating at a fast pace and citizens are keen to keep up with the latest trends. In this webinar, we will be exploring sustainability for home textiles, looking at the key issues and challenges the sector faces.
This session covers:
• The current scene – how the sector has grown in the last five years
• How can alternative business models apply to this sector in the same way we are seeing in the clothing industry?
• How can the sector become circular?
- Textiles
- Non-clothing textiles
- Textiles 2030
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
This best practice guide identifies how a more consistent approach can be taken to the redistribution of surplus retailer own-label food from supply chain businesses. This will result in more food being made available for redistribution, in a timely manner.
- Food and drink
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Non-governmental organisations
Defining the actions the hospitality and food service sector will take to help to deliver the UK Food Waste Reduction Roadmap. New update coming Spring 2024.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- UN SDG 12.3
- Hospitality and food service
- Retailers and brands
- Trade associations
A voluntary agreement is a proven method for tackling food waste, focusing on prevention rather than diversion.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
The ambition of The UK Plastics Pact is for supermarkets to provide widespread collection points for plastic bags and wrapping in advance of kerbside collections, and collect 10% of material that is placed onto the market by the end of 2022. Consistency in these collection points will be important to avoid confusion for citizens and maximise the amount collected. This guide will help retailers simplify recycling for you and your customers.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Textiles 2030 is the trailblazing initiative for fashion and textiles companies in the UK.
- Textiles
- Textiles 2030
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments