Resources
Redistributing surplus food from farms can help those who do not have enough to feed themselves, reduce food waste and ensure that the hard effort of farmers and growers does not go to waste.
- Food and drink
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld Commitment
- Fresh produce sector
- Organics
- Farmers and growers
- Manufacturers
Are you a local authority that separately collects household food waste weekly? Or an AD operator working with an authority that does so?
WRAP trials have proven that low cost intervention measures, such as using bin stickers and caddy liners, can increase the amount of household food waste collected for recycling.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This online tool provides guidance to dairies who supply fresh milk in HDPE milk bottles to the UK retailers, in order to help them to maximise the recyclability of the milk bottles they put onto the UK market.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
This online tool provides guidance to dairies who supply fresh milk in HDPE milk bottles to the UK retailers, in order to help them to maximise the recyclability of the milk bottles they put onto the UK market.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
A methodology and associated tool for quantifying the potential impact of re-use, including greenhouse gas emissions, job opportunities or financial impacts.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Re-use
- Manufacturers
The calculator allows those creating and selling compost to see the financial values of key nutrients in compost and digestate when compared to inorganic fertilisers. The values are based on current market prices for fertilisers and the typical readily available nutrient content of composts and digestates.
- Collections & recycling
- Farmers and growers
This project provides wood reprocessors with the tools needed to enable them to easily identify contaminated wood.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Manufacturers
The WRAP commercial and household waste/recycling ‘apportionment tool’ assists local authorities to calculate the proportion of waste and recycling when it is co-collected on the same vehicle.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
This tool enables you to estimate the environmental and economic impacts of re-using selected products in the UK.
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities