Resources

The purpose of this guide is to:

• Raise awareness and understanding of the design process needed when developing recycling promotions.
• Signpost you to other guidance documents available to help you plan your communications.
• Provide advice on how to work with a design agency or internal design team to develop and deliver promotional material and the timescales involved.

This document aims to help you estimate the cost of communications activities. The indicative costs will help you develop an initial budget for your communications and give you an indication of what is acceptable value for money.

Monitoring the impact of communications is essential to determine what has been effective and demonstrate the value and success of communications activity.

This is a guide for local authority waste and recycling officers to help develop kerbside collection calendars. These are essential communication tools and provide householders with information about their waste and recycling collection frequency and instructions on how to participate.

The purpose of this guide is to raise awareness and understanding of print processes in common use and how they work.

Through The UK Plastics Pact we are redesigning the plastics system, working across the entire plastics value chain to reduce its climate impact, by stopping plastic waste, and the harmful emissions of new plastic production, keeping the material in the economy and out of the environment.

We are over halfway to The UK Plastics Pact targets and our 2021-22 annual report gives an honest appraisal of progress and challenges. 

This webinar introduces the new Love Food Hate Waste Toolkit, launched at the LARAC conference, and runs through the assets available to use, how and when to get the best out of them and provides an insight into the research behind their development.

The webinar is also a reminder of the dates for Food Waste Action Week 2023 and gives a few early pointers into the planning for the week of action – get it in your calendar and start planning your local events now.

With energy bills rising, help your residents save money by reducing food waste whilst having a positive impact on the environment.

The potential impact of increasing online resale of products 

The Benefits of Reuse project was originally created in 2011 by WRAP to estimate economic, environmental and social indicators for re-use, for the first time. 

Our latest report conducted on behalf of eBay explores the potential role of reuse in helping people across the UK in the current cost-of-living crisis, and considers the potential environmental and economic benefits to households of buying second hand items through online exchange. 

WRAP’s recycling tracker provides insights into UK citizen’s attitudes towards recycling as well as a greater understanding of their recycling related behaviours. It is an annual survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.

A webinar that discusses two new guides being published to help Local Authorities implement service changes effectively. It discusses the stages, timescales and milestones to be considered to successfully plan for and implement a major service change. 

In this webinar the Local Authority team will get you up to speed on everything you need to know about WRAP’s Gate Fees 2021/2022 report.

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.