Resources

Reaffirming the critical role that the food system has to play in reducing GHG emissions both in the UK and overseas.

Working at all stages from farm to fork to improve efficiency and productivity, minimise waste, protect natural assets and reduce global warming.​

Tracking the UK's progress towards achieving the Courtauld 2030 food waste target and UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.

Share your views on the proposed refresh of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.

Reducing household food waste through changes to the retail environment.

A watching brief on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

This ‘Circular Economy: From Commitments to Action’ watching brief – and WRAP's Food Loss and Waste: From Commitments to Action watching brief – follow our Seven Steps Towards Net Zero report, which outlines seven practical strategies that G7 countries can adopt to reduce consumption-based emissions.

A watching brief on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

This ‘Food Loss and Waste: From Commitments to Action’ watching brief – and WRAP's Circular Economy: From Commitments to Action watching brief – follow our Seven Steps Towards Net Zero report, which outlines seven practical strategies that G7 countries can adopt to reduce consumption-based emissions.

We need to radically transform our relationship with single-use plastic packaging and a key part of this will be the move to reuse and refill for many everyday items we purchase.

Our latest report and research explores citizen behaviours around reuse and refill. In partnership with Asda and Unilever, we shadowed research participants across the whole of their shopping journey. From pre-shop preparation to instore experience, we evaluated how our trial participants interacted with refill zones and developed and tested a series of instore behaviour change interventions. All designed to improve the reuse and refill shopping experience for our participants.

The objective of the project was to take a complex product such as a ready meal and conduct a detailed review of the current process flow and identify waste hotspots and opportunities for reduction.

This research summary report shows the joint research undertaken regarding food loss and waste across four key markets - UK, US, Canada and Australia. The study found that nearly half of respondents throw away as much food or more than they did this time last year revealing an opportunity for consumers to save more by reducing waste in their homes.

Seven strategies to tackle climate change

Our report for the G7 provides detailed guidance on how to tackle consumption-based emissions. If all the strategies were implemented they would save nearly one billion tonnes of CO2eq emissions a year by 2030.

This report from WRAP and the University of Leeds builds on previous research to provide a quantitative assessment of possible policy interventions to reduce resource consumption and green house gas emissions associated with their production.