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Materials Pricing Report

The Materials Pricing Report is a free subscription service for buyers and sellers of recovered materials.

The aim of the...

Guidance on Re-use in Collections and Sorting

Increasing facilities, communications and behaviours encouraging the re-use of existing products for their original...

Guidance on Kerbside Recycling Collection

Kerbside recycling collections make up a huge part of the work undertaken by local authorities and generate significant value through...

Household food waste in the UK, 2015

This report provides estimates for total and avoidable...

Recycling of Aluminium Plastic Laminated Tubes and Pouches

These reports detail the technological challenges and market opportunities involved in recycling aluminium plastic laminated tubes and...

Recycling Post-Consumer Film Trials

Trials were carried out using fully comingled post-consumer film packaging to manufacture products that could be used by the retail...

Collection: popular content

Recycling collections for flats

Re-use communications pilots

A suite of communications materials aimed at increasing re-use of textiles and bulky waste is now available following pilots with six...

Bulky waste guidance - definition

Definition of bulky waste, reuse and preparation for reuse and what is reusable and recyclable.

Measuring the quality and value of textiles from various sources

The purpose of this report is to measure the value of textiles from various sources through the material markets and the associated...

Monitoring and evaluation guidance - executive summary

Environmental and economic benefits of re-use

In 2009, WRAP published Meeting the UK Climate Challenge: The Contribution of...