Resources
This guide provides a step by step approach to developing a re-use baseline and using it to monitor and evaluate progress.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide will help you to identify what can be achieved, engage with stakeholders, set up frames of reference and an action plan. It includes examples and case studies of re-use from across the UK and a handy 'lessons' learnt' section.
- 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
An agreement between the Scottish Government, Defra, the Welsh Government, and the Northern Ireland Department of the Environment with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and its supermarket members.
- Plastic Packaging
- Eliminating problem plastics
- Plastic packaging design
- Film and flexible packaging
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Waste management and reprocessors
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
There are multiple mechanisms available for the exchange and re-use of items. These include face to face exchange through events and online exchange via a number of websites. Local authorities can either deliver these services or support community groups and other external organisations in their delivery of the services.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
The following page lists items that are more commonly re-used.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
It is essential to create a market demand for re-used items. There are a number of barriers which prevent consumers choosing re-used items. Local authorities can work to remove these barriers through their communications campaigns.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
Online exchange systems provide a portal for the re-use of unwanted items through the internet.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This section of the Household Waste Prevention Hub will guide you through the four main stages of delivering waste prevention in your local authority.
- Waste management and end markets
- Local Authorities
There are a number of potential barriers which prevent householders participating in re-use.
- Collections & recycling
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Re-use
- Local Authorities
- Packaging producers
There are a variety of local and national re-use organisations that are well established. In addition to delivering their own services, local authorities can work with existing organisations to promote and encourage re-use. WRAP has recently launched its Partnerships are key to success (PAKTS) initiative which comprises a suite of material including how-to guides and case studies highlighting the importance of re-use and partnership working.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
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