Resources
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
Research exploring the current behaviours around carrier bag use and attitudes related to the use of bags for life and to the current 5p carrier bag charge amongst consumers in England.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Re-use
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Packaging producers
Our plan for achieving Net Zero.
This report unveils new insights on how resource efficiency and resource sufficiency can cut greenhouse gas emissions. Developed in collaboration with CREDS researchers at the University of Leeds, it offers a clear, practical roadmap which delivers quick wins.
- Plastic Packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Food and drink
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Household food waste
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- Re-use
- Recovered materials markets
- Product durability
- Minimising product returns
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Setting out the UK’s vision for best in class design in rigid household plastic packaging. Includes plastic packaging currently classed as recyclable and the ambition for recycled content.
Updated Guidance: March 2021
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
A report to the Defra Packaging Collections Recycling Working Group on the implementation of plastic film/flexibles recycling within consistency policy.
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
WRAP has carried out research on the contribution resource efficiency can make to achieving climate change targets. It covers supply of and demand for materials and products in the UK economy, and also accounts for the trade with the rest of the world. Thus, it covers the contribution from UK territorial emissions and from emissions related to consumption of goods and services imported from abroad.
- Plastic packaging design
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Design for extending clothing life
- National government and departments
This report is for businesses seeking to make improvements to packaging design by taking a systemic view of material choices to lower the environmental impacts of packaging.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
A world where resources are used sustainably. This is our vision. And this plan tells you what we will do to get there.
- Plastic Packaging
- Food and drink
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- UN SDG 12.3
- Textiles
- Collections & recycling
- UN SDG 12.5
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
The European Plastics Pact has set ambitious common targets and aims to encourage cross border connection, cooperation, innovation, and harmonisation at the European level, to accelerate a circular plastics economy in Europe.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
A qualitative and quantitative investigation into consumer attitudes to, and behaviour around, food waste and food packaging, which will inform action to help further reduce household food waste.
- Plastic Packaging
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
PackFlow Covid-19: The impact on the compliance landscape for UK packaging recycling 2020-2022
Packaging compliance specialist Valpak (a Reconomy Group Company), together with its key partners WRAP and INCPEN, has published updated PackFlow reports which estimate the amount of packaging placed on the UK market (POM) in 2019 (Phase I) and assess the impact of Covid-19 on UK packaging compliance for 2020 and through to 2022 (Phase II).
Despite concerns relating to the potential impact of COVID-19 and the associated restrictions, the report finds that overall compliance with targets proposed in the 2019 packaging consultations will be challenging yet broadly achievable.
The PackFlow reports cover glass, metals, paper, plastic and wood and are designed to quantify how much packaging is placed on the UK market (POM) and subsequently recycled. They are also used by UK governments to inform the setting of business recycling targets.
- Waste management and end markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
Presenting our 2019-20 annual report. A year on from our inaugural annual report where we published our 2018 baseline data we can now present our 2019 data highlights and member actions.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Re-use
- Re-use and recycling
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations