Resources
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
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
WRAP have produced a series of step-by-step guides aimed at encouraging more partnerships between local authorities, waste management companies and third sector organisations to deliver more re-use.
- Collections and sorting
- Recycling in urban areas
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Commercial waste
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
The Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP) brings together clothing retailers, brands, suppliers, local authority representatives, recyclers, charities, trade bodies and the public sector to reduce the environmental footprint of clothing.
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
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
This report provides an assessment of how food waste levels have changed historically in the UK, and the potential impact of a range of ‘exogenous’ factors and interventions on food waste levels in the future.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
In this section you will find the Quality manual template which can be used to set up your company’s manual.
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Waste management and reprocessors
This full report summarises the project into the development of practical guidance documents and templates to assit with the implementation of Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety management system in a MRF. The report summarises the methods and advantages of implementing a Quality Management System (QMS) and includes time and cost savings associated with using defined templates and implementation methods.
- Collections & recycling
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Recovered materials markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
In this section you will find the Quality and Environmental (Q&E) manual template which can be used to set up your company’s manual.
You will also find sample templates for ISO 14001 implementation which have been generically completed as far as possible for MRF operations. The templates include procedures and record forms that are known to meet the requirements of the ISO standard as well as align with the needs of the MRF industry. Key templates also include explanations within the text to assist the user in understanding what site-specific information may be required.
Please save all documents and manuals to your own computer before making any amends.
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Waste management and reprocessors
Two documents with step-by-step guidance on the implementation of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards respectively. The flowchart should be used in conjunction with the Guidance document.
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Waste management and reprocessors
In this section you will find the Health & Safety (H&S) manual template as well as the Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety (QEHS) manual template, both of which can be used to set up your company’s manuals.
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- Waste management and reprocessors