Resources
These good practice guides are aimed at waste management companies and local authorities to encourage the collection of food waste from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), public sector organisations, and larger businesses.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Organics
- Local Authorities
This guide aims to help waste management companies understand how best to meet the food waste collection service requirements of NHS hospitals.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
WRAP’s household waste collection commitment worked with local authorities to make a commitment to the first set of principles for a good waste and recycling service based on the views of the public.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
This guide offers ideas and opportunities for all those involved in the management of household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs). It is aimed at all those involved in the management of HWRCs, including local authority officers, waste-management companies and third-sector re-use partners.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
The WRAP commercial and household waste/recycling ‘apportionment tool’ assists local authorities to calculate the proportion of waste and recycling when it is co-collected on the same vehicle.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This case study describes how the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) has successfully introduced the collection of PTTs at the kerbside, as part of a strategic review of its recycling and waste services.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
This case study demonstrates how Cambridge City Council, along with Huntingdonshire District Council and Fenland District Council, as two other district partners from Recycle for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (RECAP), were able to formalise the acceptance of PTTs (Pots, Tubs and Trays) collected at the kerbside for material recycling facility (MRF) processing.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The Business Recycling and Waste Services Commitment was set-up to help you improve your business customers' satisfaction with how their rubbish and recycling is collected and ultimately boost recycling rates.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Bringing together local authorities, the waste management industry and retailers to increase the quantity and quality of material collected for recycling.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Local Authorities
Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
There are a number of potential barriers which prevent householders participating in re-use.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Re-use
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
One of the main barriers to donation of items for re-use is a lack of knowledge about what services are available or a lack of facilities for donation. Local authorities can encourage donation by providing information about donation options and also be supporting the re-use organisations who will receive the donations.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations