Resources

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.

Textiles 2030 will transform the way that the UK supplies, uses and disposes of clothing and textiles.

Under the Food Loss and Waste Standard and the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap Roadmap guidelines biomaterial processing is NOT classified as a food waste destination. To help businesses assess if any of your material qualifies, new guidelines and a supporting assessment tool have been developed.

Awarded projects

These grants will support projects that demonstrate new and proven citizen interventions that will encourage and influence citizens to reduce food waste. The aim of this grant is to support new, behaviour change interventions that encourage citizens to waste less food.

Everything you need to know about getting started in sustainable fashion and textiles - from regulation and measurement, to tried and tested strategies for cutting carbon. 

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. 

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.

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’).