Resources
This guide provides an overview of the steps required to procure a good practice bulky waste service that maximises re-use.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Guidance for Food and Drink Manufacturers and Retailers on the Use of Food Surplus as Animal Feed.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Waste management and reprocessors
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
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
The benefits of face-to-face exchanges when it comes to re-using household items.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
There are multiple mechanisms available for the exchange and re-use of items. These include face to face exchange through events and online exchange via a number of websites. Local authorities can either deliver these services or support community groups and other external organisations in their delivery of the services.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
The following page lists items that are more commonly re-used.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
It is essential to create a market demand for re-used items. There are a number of barriers which prevent consumers choosing re-used items. Local authorities can work to remove these barriers through their communications campaigns.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Online exchange systems provide a portal for the re-use of unwanted items through the internet.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This section of the Household Waste Prevention Hub will guide you through the four main stages of delivering waste prevention in your local authority.
- Waste management and end markets
- 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