WRAP UPDATE - NERF Sept 2012
1. New reports
New bulky waste reports
WRAP has produced new bulky waste case studies on collecting bulky items.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/bulky-waste-case-studies
These describe authorities’ experiences and how to deliver higher re-use and recycling
performance as well as community and business gains.
A new report looking at the composition of bulky waste across the UK, and its potential for reuse, http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/study-re-use-potential-household-bulky-waste
1.59M tonnes of bulky waste are collected either at kerbside or taken to HWRCs. The report
indicates that more than half of bulky waste items taken to HWRCs could be re-used. There
are also summary documents that look at composition and re-use potential of furniture,
textiles and WEEE.
Report on food waste collections for SMEs out now
We have completed some further work on the business case for food collections from
businesses in the hospitality sector – Food Waste Collections to SMEs: Developing the
Business Case. http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/food-waste-collections-smes-developingbusiness-case
This follows previous guidance around collecting food waste from businesses and schools.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/collecting-food-waste-small-businesses-and-schools-1
Report on impacts of clothing
‘Valuing our clothes’ was published in July at the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan Conference.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/valuing-our-clothes
It provides the first big-picture look at the financial and environmental impacts of clothing. It
sets out the opportunities to reduce the resource impacts of clothing – across its whole lifecycle – and gain business benefits from doing so. It also includes evidence from a new
consumer survey. Key findings include:
 around 30% of clothing in wardrobes has not been worn for at least a year; the cost of
this unused clothing is around £30 billion;
 extending the average life of clothes by just three months of active use would lead to a
5-10% reduction in each of the carbon, water and waste footprints;
 an estimated £140 million worth (around 350,000 tonnes) of used clothing goes to
landfill in the UK every year
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2012 Gate Fees Report
This annual overview report provides a summary of gate fees for a range of waste treatment,
recovery and disposal options. It covers MRFs, open-air windrow, in-vessel composting,
anaerobic digestion (AD), EfW, MBT, landfill and this year - wood waste.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/wrap-gate-fees-report-2012
2. Communications
How do people feel about the food they waste when eating out?
Love Food Hate Waste is developing ideas for how we can help people waste less food when
eating out. This is part of the new hospitality agreement to cut food and associated
packaging waste for pubs, clubs, restaurants and quick service restaurants.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/hospitality-and-food-service-wraps-work-0
We have a short a short video on what people have to say about the food they waste when
eating out?
Running Love Food Hate Waste events?
We have a new feature where we can highlight your events to the public. Simply go to
LFHWartwork@wrap.org.uk with details of what, when, where and we’ll do the rest. Don’t
forget to check out the rest of the website as there are new features every week including
our new portioning animation. http://england.lovefoodhatewaste.com/content/perfectportions
Recycle Now Guidelines
A new set of Recycle Now brand guidelines has been developed explaining how best to use
the Recycle Now logos, icons, colours and artwork templates. The guidelines are an
amalgamation of the previous versions, updated as an easy-to-use, interactive document for
all of WRAP’s partners. They are available on the Recycle Now Partners site.
http://www.recyclenowpartners.org.uk/local_authorities/brand_benefits.html
3. Other initiatives
WRAP exhibited at this year’s RWM 2012, 11-13 September). We will be offered information
on recycling, reprocessing and re-use, as well as information and guidance on what we offer
to local authorities. We also had several speakers in the RWM 2012 conference schedule
including Rachel Gray spoke in the LA Theatre on the Wednesday, 12th on re-use and our
new textiles (clothing) collection guide.
Commercial and household waste protocol
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Phase 1 of the work to develop a protocol to help authorities (and others) more accurately
apportion household and commercial wastes where these are co-collected (at kerbside and
HWRCs) has been completed. Phase 2 will involve testing/validating the protocol and
determining if any additional data collection is necessary to improve the robustness of the
tools.
New reports
In addition to the Textiles Collection Guide, we will be publishing updated guides and good
practice information covering HWRCs, Bring sites and Recycling-on-the-Go during the
autumn.
4.
Autumn Training Courses & Support
Our programme of training courses and workshops for the autumn is now available. For
further details and to book a place go to - www.wrap.org.uk/la/training. There are over 15
sessions to choose from.
We have also added two new courses on:
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Developing a service contract – 27 Nov, Birmingham
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Re-using & recycling bulky waste - 25 Sept, Birmingham; 10 Oct, London
WRAP Local authority support - http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/local-authority-11advisory-support or email lgs@wrap.org.uk
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