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 guidance is intended to help local authorities maximise the benefit that they obtain for the dry recyclables collected as part of their provision of waste services.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Recovered materials markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
Increasing recycling in urban areas, particularly from flats, is difficult and challenging. This report seeks to identify and test measures that could help increase recycling in urban areas and cities, with specific focus on flatted properties.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- 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
A guide for local authorities to help determine, implement and optimise efficient and effective commercial recycling collection services, including examples of good practice, an overview of relevant legislation and evidence-based approaches to assessing and improving performance.
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
If you’re interested in collecting cartons from households for recycling, this guide can help you weigh up your options.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
WRAP's Market Snapshot provides an overview of recent developments in recovered material markets.
This report can provide you with an essential insight into and market intelligence from the recycling sector.
- Collections & recycling
- Recovered materials markets
- Market snapshots
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
Anaerobic digestion processing systems operate in different ways. For example, material may be fed into a reactor in distinct batches, or in a continuous flow.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Farmers and growers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
An increasing number of local authorities are adding non-bottle rigid plastic packaging, comprising pots, tubs and trays, to existing kerbside recycling schemes. We have produced a guide which sets out key considerations, benefits and options of taking this approach.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A review of the current status of the household plastic film packaging recycling supply chain, incorporating collection options and emerging markets.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Film and flexible packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers