Resources
The Co-operative Food has undertaken a series of initiatives to give their stores and customers increased product life in order to combat waste.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Household food waste
- UN SDG 12.3
- Consumer behaviour
- Retailers and brands
WRAP, INCPEN, The Packaging Federation, the Food and Drink Federation, Kent Waste Partnership and the British Retail Consortium carried out independent research into consumers’ attitudes, behaviours and motivations around food waste and food packaging, to better understand how to help reduce the amount of food thrown away.
- 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
- Retailers and brands
- Packaging producers
The Extending Clothing Life Protocol is a set of guides and principles to aid clothes designers and manufacturers in creating longer lasting clothing.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Manufacturers
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
This report contains analysis of the impact of the carrier-bag charge introduced in Wales in 2011 on the sales of bin bags. It quantifies the increase in sales and compares this increase to the reduction in carrier-bag use that accompanied the introduction of the charge. There is also information on trends in sales of bags for life during this period.
- Plastic Packaging
This report is a quantification of the true cost of food waste in the UK’s Hospitality and Food Service industry.
More recent headline figures for food waste in the sector have been published in the Courtauld Commitment 2025 Milestone Progress Report.
- Food and drink
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Courtauld Commitment
- Food Waste Reduction Roadmap
- Guardians of Grub
- Guardians of Grub Becoming a Champion
- Hospitality and food service
- Trade associations
- Food and drink
- Courtauld Commitment
- Retailers and brands
This section looks in detail at defining your communications aim and setting your overall objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Service design
- Communicating with residents
- Collections and sorting
- Kerbside collection
- Local Authorities
The next stage in the communications planning cycle is to select the strategy and communications methods most appropriate to achieving your aim and objectives. This section helps you look at your overall approach, the issues to consider in different operational situations and how to choose the most appropriate mix of communication methods for your situation. You should start by considering your overall strategic approach and consider which main communication methods to use. This section takes you through this process and looks at the types of communication methods and how to use them to use to support services in different situations and target different audiences.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This monitoring and evaluation section shows that it is part of a continuous process of learning and improvement that enables you to assess the performance of your communications against your aim and objectives.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This target audience section helps you to identify and describe your target audience. You must be clear about the target audience for your communications and keep them as the focus of your effort at all stages.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities
This section shows how your communication methods cover a wide range of individual activities. Once you have decided on your overall strategy and selected the mix of communication methods to use, you need to look in detail at the communications activities you need to deliver your strategy’s objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Communicating with residents
- Local Authorities
This situational analysis section looks at how to develop a situational analysis using the information you gathered in section 1. A situational analysis takes a snapshot view of your organisation or situation and where things stand at a particular point in time.
- Consumer behaviour
- Local Authorities