Resources

This section outlines processes that local authorities can use to estimate cost and carbon savings that successful waste prevention activities can bring.

Making the case for waste prevention requires an understanding of the possible types of waste prevention activities that could be adopted and an indication of what these could achieve if they were implemented.    

This customisable template is for use to support your reporting to food waste destinations only.

The second in a series of reports detailing how UK citizens’ food habits, behaviours and attitudes have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Waste Prevention Programme in England for 2013 was set out in the policy paper ‘Prevention is better than cure: The role of waste prevention in moving to a more resource efficient, circular economy'. This report provides a review of the existing waste prevention programme: actions undertaken and impacts.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire global economy, cutting economic activity and increasing unemployment.

A cross-industry vision to optimise productivity and minimise waste from farm to fork.

• Practical guides developed with industry.
• Help plan and undertake field measurements.
• Field Record Sheet & Reporting Template to help record measurements.
• Enable growers to identify opportunities to reduce waste and increase marketed yield.

This report outlines progress in reducing UK food waste and greenhouse gas emissions associated with food consumed in the UK – in the context of the Courtauld Commitment 2025 targets (2015 to 2018) and the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 (2007 to 2018).

WRAP regularly calculates the amount of food waste produced in the UK and identifies any factors that might increase it. This report looks at household food waste collections by local authorities to try and determine whether targeted collection schemes can reduce food waste arisings.