Resources
The value of unused clothing in wardrobes has been estimated at around £30 billion. It is also estimated £140 million worth of clothing goes into landfill each year.
These estimates suggest there is an opportunity for local authorities to divert clothing waste away from disposal by promoting better care for clothing and alternative management options. Local authorities also have a role to play in providing advice on extending the life of clothes through enhanced care, re-use and recycling.
- Textiles
- Collections & recycling
- Contamination prevention
- HWRCs & bring sites
- Re-use
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
WRAP’s Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) campaign provides useful reference and communications material that local authorities can draw on to promote food reduction in their area.
LFHW has its own dedicated consumer facing website containing a wealth of detailed ideas to help individuals, communities and organisations reduce food waste as well as the LFHW partner website containing free materials, templates, and resources for local authorities.
The Waste Prevention Hub provides an overview of a selection of that guidance. For the full details please visit the LFHW page or the dedicated the LFHW consumer website.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Organics
- Local Authorities
The WRAP website and its consumer-facing Love Food Hate Waste campaign website are excellent sources of food waste data and summary statistics.
This section signposts key reports and web pages that will be helpful to those looking for data to help with preparing waste prevention communication materials, with the implementation of new prevention activities and with planning further research.
- Organics
- Local Authorities
WRAP has produced this guide to help health, safety and environment managers; or others with management responsibilities to improve the efficiency of their organisation’s use of resources – e.g. raw materials, water, energy – as a means of improving the performance of their business.
- Plastic Packaging
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Hospitality and food service
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- Trade associations
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
A guide about establishing re-use as a strategic priority for local authorities and their partners. It provides a step-by-step approach for building a case for a re-use strategy and the environmental, social and economic benefits this can bring.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Re-use
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
The United Kingdom faces substantial economic challenges in its use of labour and scarce natural resources. While the economy has significantly increased its resource efficiency in recent years, supply risks in an increasingly competitive context mean that better use of natural resources is needed.
- Waste management and end markets
- Waste management and reprocessors
Transforming re-use through partnerships.
How two related partnerships have increased bulky waste re-use in Buckinghamshire.
- Collections & recycling
- Recycling in urban areas
- Re-use
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Collaboration and flexibility forge re-use success. Local authorities in Oxfordshire have partnered with a local charity to deliver a combined bulky waste collection service.
- Waste management and end markets
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Good menu planning can be a great way of preventing food waste within your organisation and to help put profits on the bottom line.
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Hospitality and food service
How to develop food promotions that won’t contribute to increased food waste.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh produce sector
- Dairy sector
- Bakery sector
- Ambient foods sector
- Manufacturers
A new generation of sustainable products by design. 80% of the environmental impacts of today’s products and services are determined at the early stages of product development and design.
- Food and drink
- Retailers and brands
The route map is intended to help local authorities that collect waste to understand their legal obligations under the Regulations. It is particularly focused on Regulation 13, which concerns the separate collection of glass, metal, paper and plastic (‘the four materials’), but also explores closely related Regulation 12 requirements regarding the waste hierarchy.
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities