Resources
WRAP’s Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) campaign provides useful reference and communications material that local authorities can draw on to promote food reduction in their area.
LFHW has its own dedicated consumer facing website containing a wealth of detailed ideas to help individuals, communities and organisations reduce food waste as well as the LFHW partner website containing free materials, templates, and resources for local authorities.
The Waste Prevention Hub provides an overview of a selection of that guidance. For the full details please visit the LFHW page or the dedicated the LFHW consumer website.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Organics
- Local Authorities
The WRAP website and its consumer-facing Love Food Hate Waste campaign website are excellent sources of food waste data and summary statistics.
This section signposts key reports and web pages that will be helpful to those looking for data to help with preparing waste prevention communication materials, with the implementation of new prevention activities and with planning further research.
- Organics
- Local Authorities
WRAP has produced this guide to help health, safety and environment managers; or others with management responsibilities to improve the efficiency of their organisation’s use of resources – e.g. raw materials, water, energy – as a means of improving the performance of their business.
- Plastic Packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
A guide about establishing re-use as a strategic priority for local authorities and their partners. It provides a step-by-step approach for building a case for a re-use strategy and the environmental, social and economic benefits this can bring.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Re-use
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Transforming re-use through partnerships.
How two related partnerships have increased bulky waste re-use in Buckinghamshire.
- Collections & recycling
- Recycling in urban areas
- Re-use
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
The route map is intended to help local authorities that collect waste to understand their legal obligations under the Regulations. It is particularly focused on Regulation 13, which concerns the separate collection of glass, metal, paper and plastic (‘the four materials’), but also explores closely related Regulation 12 requirements regarding the waste hierarchy.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
This section shows how your communication methods cover a wide range of individual activities. Once you have decided on your overall strategy and selected the mix of communication methods to use, you need to look in detail at the communications activities you need to deliver your strategy’s objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Local Authorities
This section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
This section takes you through the stages of developing your communications brand and its identity, the tone of voice for your communications and explains how to link to the national Recycle Now campaign brand to get the most out of it.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Local Authorities
Workers carrying out collections of glass for recycling can be exposed to high levels of noise. This report provides information to employers and client authorities on the noise levels experienced by waste collection operatives on a variety of collection systems.
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
This tool enables you to estimate the environmental and economic impacts of re-using selected products in the UK.
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
An update to the 2006 report, reviewing high quality Life Cycle Assessments from around the world to assess the impact of alternative waste management options for a range of materials, and discuss the findings for each material in the context of the UK.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Recovered materials markets
- Waste management and reprocessors