Resources
This project provides wood reprocessors with the tools needed to enable them to easily identify contaminated wood.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Manufacturers
The Materials Facility (MRF) Reporting Portal is an online tool which allows users to interrogate the data around material quality supplied by MRFs. This comes under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (Schedule 9A - the ‘MF Regs’).
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
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
- Manufacturers
This guide is aimed at food and drink producers, manufacturers and retailers, logistics providers and wholesalers who are already sending food surpluses to animal feed or those who wish to investigate the possibilities for their company. It will help you identify suitable surplus food, understand the current legislation, and implement robust processes and procedures.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Farmers and growers
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
The chart below shows UK exports of plastic packaging and non-packaging plastic from 2008 to 2015.
- Plastic Packaging
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Manufacturers
Getting employees engaged in a company’s quest to improve resource efficiency has proved to be a surefire winner. With many companies having run successful campaigns relating to energy and water, WRAP has produced the ‘Your Workplace Without Waste’ programme to help you tackle food and packaging waste in your business.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld 2025
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
WRAP worked with nine small and medium size (SME) businesses in the Swansea and the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to identify ways of saving money by improving their environmental performance. The work highlighted how, by working together, small businesses can deliver substantial savings.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Courtauld 2025
- Hospitality and food service
- Packaging producers
Food waste is a constant challenge for commercial kitchens, which creativity in the kitchen can really help to tackle. Watch our chef masterclasses to get practical tips and ideas on how to get the most from ingredients, waste less and save money.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld 2025
- Hospitality and food service
This tool highlights the potential scale of opportunities for resource efficiency in fresh produce supply chains.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld 2025
- Fresh produce sector
- Manufacturers
This aim and objectives section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.
- Consumer behaviour
- 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