Resources
This guide explores the challenges and opportunities in accepting commercial and industrial (C&I) waste at HWRCs (Household Waste and Recycling Centres) and Waste Transfer Stations (WTS).
- Collections & recycling
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Commercial waste
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
This guide focuses on treatment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) at Approved Authorised Treatment Facilities (AATFs)/Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATFs) and re-use organisations. It is structured to allow users to focus on specific areas of interest or to read as whole chapters.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The focus of this guide is on the collection of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) from households through designated collection facilities (DCFs). It brings together existing information and explains the roles of different parties, particularly operators of approved DCFs, approved Producer Compliance Schemes (PCSs) and Local Authorities (LAs).
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Use these checklists to help with food labelling choices. The images and on-pack wording can help reduce food waste for all products.
- Consumer behaviour
This report demonstrates our latest research on the opportunities for businesses in the Electrical and Electronic Equipment sector in using resources more sustainably.
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
Guidance for farmers, growers, advisers and agricultural contractors on how to maximise the benefits of using digestate and compost as renewable fertilisers.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Organics
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
This guidance details the use of food-based digestate across a diverse range of markets in the landscape and regeneration sectors.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
A case study detailing the success at Exeter City Council’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) with the introduction of an optical sorter to maintain quality of feedstock being processed and improve the quality of output material.
- Minimising product returns
- Waste management and reprocessors
These guides take the reader through communicating re-use and the process step-by-step to support the delivery of effective communications.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide informs anyone funding or running HWRC sites of the options and opportunities available when introducing or improving re-use services. See download for the 2016 review of HWRC re-use shops.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations