Resources
New report demonstrates good progress being made across all three targets – food waste, carbon and water – in a challenging year for food and drink.
- Agile response by signatories to COVID-19 sees new partnerships brokered, over £4m awarded to surplus food sector, and new ‘Best Before’ guidance for surplus food.
- New Courtauld 2025 Supply Chain GHG Working Group convened to help make faster and more effective progress towards reducing GHG emissions in supply chains.
- Collective action catchment projects mobilised under Courtauld 2025 Water Ambition.
- New citizen-facing brand Wasting Food: It’s Out of Date helps citizens make the link between wasted food and climate change.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Surplus food redistribution
- Water stewardship
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Food date labelling
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
The Waste Prevention Programme in England for 2013 was set out in the policy paper ‘Prevention is better than cure: The role of waste prevention in moving to a more resource efficient, circular economy'. This report provides a review of the existing waste prevention programme: actions undertaken and impacts.
- Courtauld Commitment
- SCAP 2020
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Hospitality and food service
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
This programme of research addresses the lack of quality data on household and municipal waste collected by local authorities in the UK. It looks at the quantity of different materials in mixed residual waste in order to broaden the data available, and to support policy development. Five outputs have been derived from this research, outlined below.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The UK Plastics Pact is leading a global wave of change in the way we make, use, reuse and dispose of plastic. The UK's model is being replicated in other countries to form a powerful global movement as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy initiative. Since April 2018 the Pact has made meaningful progress working towards the four ambitious targets.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Plastic packaging design
- Global Plastics Pacts
- Reuse and refill
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
WRAP has launched a series of market situation reports providing in-depth information on the latest economic trends and developments facing the UK’s recycling industry. Each report focuses on a different material stream and is presented in a compact, easily digestible format.
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Organics
- Recovered materials markets
- Market situation reports
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Outlining progress made in the first year of the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
- 185 organisations committed to the Roadmap, including 156 food businesses.
- 121 large businesses provided evidence of having implemented Target, Measure, Act.
- More than 40 businesses publicly reported food surplus and waste data in 2019.
- Engagement and training sessions were held with more than 150 businesses.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Convenience, chilled foods and frozen
- Whole chain resource efficiency
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
WRAP’s Gate Fees reports summarise the fees charged for a range of waste treatment, recovery and disposal options. It aims to assist local authorities in making better informed decisions about waste management options and to benchmark what they might be expected to pay.
- Collections & recycling
- Commercial waste
- Recovered materials markets
- Gate fees
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This report has been produced to support Defra in its understanding of the current levels of on-the-go (OTG) single use drinks containers that are placed on the market (POM), consumed, recycled or disposed of in the UK. Specifically, metal drinks cans, plastic and glass drinks bottles, drinks cartons and drinks pouches were researched. Defra requires estimates that are as accurate as possible for its packaging policy
work, therefore every effort has been made to provide error margins and robust assessments wherever possible.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Litter/Fly-tipping
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This qualitative research explored the connections between health, sustainability, and food waste.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
This report details compositional analysis of plastics received and produced by UK Material Recovery Facilities and Plastic Recovery Facilities.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The estimated quantity of plastic packaging placed on the market & recycled from 2017 to 2025 and the probability of compliance with national and European recycling targets.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Re-use & recycling
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Packaging producers
This study aims to examine the potential factors that may affect high reject rates at Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF), in order to help suggest areas to focus interventions on and also improve data quality.
- Collections & recycling
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities