Resources
This guide aims to help waste management companies understand how best to meet the food waste collection service requirements of NHS hospitals.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
These good practice guides are aimed at waste management companies and local authorities to encourage the collection of food waste from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), public sector organisations, and larger businesses.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Organics
- Local Authorities
WRAP’s household waste collection commitment worked with local authorities to make a commitment to the first set of principles for a good waste and recycling service based on the views of the public.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Recycling in urban areas
- Local Authorities
This guide offers ideas and opportunities for all those involved in the management of household waste and recycling centres (HWRCs). It is aimed at all those involved in the management of HWRCs, including local authority officers, waste-management companies and third-sector re-use partners.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This case study demonstrates how Cambridge City Council, along with Huntingdonshire District Council and Fenland District Council, as two other district partners from Recycle for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (RECAP), were able to formalise the acceptance of PTTs (Pots, Tubs and Trays) collected at the kerbside for material recycling facility (MRF) processing.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
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
These guides take the reader through communicating re-use and the process step-by-step to support the delivery of effective communications.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide informs anyone funding or running HWRC sites of the options and opportunities available when introducing or improving re-use services. See download for the 2016 review of HWRC re-use shops.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
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
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
Loan and hire activities come under the umbrella term of the "sharing economy", a term which encompasses the idea of sharing property, time, skills and other resources.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations