Resources
This webinar will cover the aims and objectives of The Carbon Waste and Resources Metric (Carbon WARM), developed to assist central government and local authorities in quantifying the greenhouse gas footprint of the their waste management activities.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
A webinar to launch the updated Local Authority Material Sales Guide and information to help LA officers maximise the benefit they obtain for the dry recyclables they collect.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Recovered materials markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A webinar on the subject of Building Back Greener and futureproofing your fashion and textile business in relation to future UK policy. This includes contributions from WRAP’s Head of Policy and Insights, Keith James as well as Tamara Cincik, Founder and CEO of Fashion Roundtable.
- Textiles
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- Textiles 2030
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- National government and departments
Plastic film and flexible recycling is the number one priority for The UK Plastics Pact. In ths webinar, WRAP’s Adam Herriott and Lowelle Bryan discuss progess so far, future plans up to 2025, and how local authorities can help lead the way in getting film collected at the kerbside.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Film and flexible packaging
- Collections & recycling
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Recovered materials markets
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
In this webinar Peter Sainsbury, WRAP Lead Economist, talks about the shifts in recovered materials, including plastics, paper and card, textiles, metal and glass price volatility. Debbie Palfrey, WRAP Cymru Materials Marketing & Compliance Advisor, also discusses learning from Materials Marketing in Wales and strategies local authorities can employ.
- Collections & recycling
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
In this webinar, Cathy Cook from LWARB joins WRAP’s Debbie Slater to talk about the topic of HMOs.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
Following on from our previous webinar with Resource London, in this second session, Gemma Scott, Local Authority Support Manager (Flats) from Resource London and Julia Bragg, from WRAP, introduce practical guidance and a new tool kit to local authorities and housing associations. The tool kit is especially designed to address barriers to recycling in flats.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
Gemma Scott, Local Authority Support Manager (Flats) from Resource London and Julia Bragg, Local Authority Technical Consulatant for WRAP, will introduce key learnings from in-depth research into how people manage their waste in flats. This webinar will explore how these learnings can be used in other local authorities, and will share information on the barriers and opportunities that shaped the intervention phase of the flats project.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
With the principle of ‘consistency in household recycling’ underpinning many of the proposals in the Government’s Resources & Waste Strategy, this webinar will share some of the key findings from WRAP’s ‘consistency’ support, highlighting how different collection scenarios performed in our studies and, for two-tier authorities, how the costs and benefits might be shared.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
Join Marketing Executive, Harriet Rockliff-Nally, in a simple walk-through of how to edit and adapt WRAP communications materials, using Adobe InDesign.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
This webinar will help collection crews understand the problems caused by contamination in dry recycling. We will run-through our practical and interactive training sessions, which you can adapt to your own collection system and procedures on dealing with contaminated containers.
- Collections & recycling
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
Join WRAP economist Peter Sainsbury, author of the Plastics Market Situation report, in a discussion on key developments in the plastics sector, specifically looking at how the amount of packaging produced and the closing of overseas export markets could impact local authorities.
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers