Resources
This planning your activities section looks at the process of putting your ideas into a coherent implementation plan and provides you with a mechanism to ensure that all activities are completed on time and within budget.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
In 2012, WRAP undertook a consumer survey and qualitative discussion groups to identify barriers to, and opportunities for, food and drink waste prevention in restaurants, pubs, quick service restaurants, hotels, staff restaurants and leisure venues.
- Food and drink
- Hospitality and food service
This guide is intended for Research and Development Directors within retailers, brand-owners and manufacturers. It provides guidance for product design and development teams to initiate and develop a process for embedding sustainability in product design in R&D programmes.
- Electricals
- Product durability
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Guardians of Grub
- Hospitality and food service
This report describes research that models the impact of purchases and consumption on waste levels. The model simulates a household over time and estimates the impact on waste levels of various decisions made relating to shopping, storing and consumption of milk.
- Food and drink
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Retailers and brands
In September 2011, Unilever Food Solutions, in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association, launched the ‘United Against Waste Toolkit’ to help the food service industry reduce its food waste.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
Workers carrying out collections of glass for recycling can be exposed to high levels of noise. This report provides information to employers and client authorities on the noise levels experienced by waste collection operatives on a variety of collection systems.
- Collections and sorting
- Local Authorities
Beverage production creates organic arisings, the bulk of which is classed as a by-product. The majority of this material is used as animal feed but different recovery options are available.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Manufacturers
This tool enables you to estimate the environmental and economic impacts of re-using selected products in the UK.
- Textiles
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use
- Electricals
- Re-use and recycling
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
An update to the 2006 report, reviewing high quality Life Cycle Assessments from around the world to assess the impact of alternative waste management options for a range of materials, and discuss the findings for each material in the context of the UK.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Commercial waste
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Recovered materials markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
A report that evaluates ways of reducing levels of fresh potato waste along the retail supply chain and in the household. It includes a consumer survey, storage trial, packaging trials and in-store training.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Fresh produce sector
- Farmers and growers
- Manufacturers