Resources
Procurement guidance for local authorities in relation to procurement of specialist food waste collection vehicles, food waste collection containers and communal housings.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
This Data Capture Sheet supports the principles to Target, Measure and Act on food waste in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, and complies with the international Food Loss & Waste Standard.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- UN SDG 12.3
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Trade associations
This publication and accompanying tool support people across the food supply chain, particularly those calculating the water footprint of food and setting science-based targets, to:
- Better understand and connect food loss and waste reductions with their efforts to reduce systems-wide water use.
- Calculate and communicate the environmental benefits of FLW reductions.
- Link those benefits to their science-based water use reduction targets.
These resources lay the foundation for guidance to organisations and governments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who are seeking to measure and tackle the water footprint associated with food imports, food waste and redistributed food.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Water stewardship
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
In this report, commissioned on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), WRAP looks at the areas throughout the lifecycle of textiles where the level of textile waste produced is an issue, in order to identify ‘hotspots’.
The report looks at waste by fibre type, waste by life cycle stage, and waste by product type to pinpoint not only where textile waste is happening, but also the types of textile waste occurring.
- Textiles
The 2024 Textiles Market Situation Report updates on the present state of the UK textiles market.
- Textiles
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Non-clothing textiles
- Kerbside collection
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Re-use
- Market situation reports
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Welcome to the WRAP Food Trends & KPI Survey, a bi-annual exploration of UK households' attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours related to food waste. As the longest-running survey of its kind, it offers a unique lens into the ever-evolving landscape of food waste in the UK.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
Reaffirming the critical role that the food system must play in reducing GHG emissions both in the UK and overseas.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Household food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Retailers and brands
Working at all stages from farm to fork to improve efficiency and productivity, minimise waste, protect natural assets and reduce global warming.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Guardians of Grub
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Household food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
New insights designed to help the food and drink sector transform the food system by changing the way consumers buy fresh fruit and veg in the UK.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Film and flexible packaging
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Behaviour change interventions
- Farmers and growers
- Hospitality and food service
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- National government and departments
The Food Tracker survey is a survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on food waste attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest-running series of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 20071. It is designed to inform WRAP’s activities but also to assess any changes in attitudes and behaviours over time.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- Farmers and growers
- Retailers and brands
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
An updated practical guide for local authorities on managing the quality of recyclable materials collected at the kerbside.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
This guide provides local authorities with information on the collection of household food waste as a means of diverting material from landfill or other residual waste treatment. The original guide was produced in 2009 and updated in 2016. This latest update for 2024 pulls together the findings from more recent studies and pilots conducted by WRAP and others.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Organics
- Local Authorities