Resources

This section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.

A practical guide to improving recycling performance through effective communications with your residents.

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. 

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. 

The Gate Fees 2021/22 report summarises the findings of WRAP’s fifteenth annual gate fees survey. The survey covers gate fees charged to local authorities in the UK for a range of municipal waste recycling, recovery, and disposal options.