Resources
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
This project aimed to test whether black CPET trays that use alternative colourant previously shown to be successfully detected and separated automatically*, could potentially be recycled back into packaging.
- Collections & recycling
- Dry materials
- 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
A study into the plastic packaging composition arriving at MRFs from established mixed plastics collections.
- Waste management and end markets
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Dry materials
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A case study detailing the halving of material entering the residual waste stream at Milton Keynes Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A case study detailing Re-Gen’s decision to adopt an environmental management system (ISO 14001) to help win customers and streamline operations.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
A communications activity to develop best practice guidance for capturing metals at the kerbside between WRAP, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the Beverage Can Makers Europe (and their partners Novelis Recycling and Tata Steel).
- Collections & recycling
- Consistency in collections
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Contamination prevention
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Dry materials
- Local Authorities
The Recycle Now programme commissioned research to explore people’s barriers to recycling at home. This report forms part of our guidance to Local Authorities on how to create more informative, pursuasive and engaging communications campaigns.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
There are a number of relevant reports and resources concerning glass collection available for both collectors and businesses. These may help you consider your role in the process.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Commercial waste
- Dry materials
- Hospitality and food service
- Local Authorities