PLASTIC FANTASTIC!
Last week, I was delighted to welcome Lord Taylor to our offices in Banbury for a fact-finding visit.
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- Cartons |Packaging |Plastics |Recycling |Local authorities |Recycled products
Androids, i-Phones, fruit machines and food waste
The issue of food waste continues to stimulate discussion and debate, and not just here in the UK.
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London 2012, a waste-free games and the three 'Rs
There are, I’m told, at the time of writing, just 198 days left and counting until the start of the much-heralded London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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Enough foil to cover Suffolk!
In the run-up to Christmas, I’m even more conscious of the amount of waste our family has the potential to produce – from wrapping paper and envelopes, to gift packaging and food left-overs.
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- Collection |Food |Fruit and Veg |Households |Kitchen waste |Local authorities |Packaging |Recycling |Scraps
We've come a long way
Who would have thought, back in early 2005 when WRAP first sat down in one of the meeting rooms at the Courtauld Gallery, with representatives from the world of food and drink, that today, we’d be examining the achievements not of the agreement hammered out then, but of its successor.
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Is it ok to throw away food that's perfectly good to eat?
It was great to see so much coverage in the print and on-line media of our annual conference.
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A day of target-beating, food waste reduction and ground-breaking research
Today’s an exciting day for us here at WRAP. This is because it’s the day of our annual conference, which I admit, probably doesn’t sound that exciting.
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Cutting down on junk (mail)
Earlier this week, Caroline Spelman, the Secretary of State for the Environment, unveiled plans for a new free-to-use website to enable people to opt out of receiving all types of unwanted advertising mail.
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Taking up the 'love your food' challenge!
With the weather on the turn, and the clocks about to change, even the hardiest amongst us may be thinking about switching on the central heating (I have to confess I have already succumbed) and swapping to the winter high-tog duvet.
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BUSY, BUSY, BUSY
Anyone who works for WRAP will tell you there’s never a shortage of work – there’s always something that needs doing and there’s never time to watch the clock and wonder why time is moving so slowly.
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