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Taking action on waste information sheets
WRAP has produced a series of information sheets to support businesses in the hospitality and food service sector in taking action on...
The True Cost of Waste in Hospitality and Food Service

This report is a quantification of the true cost of food waste in the UK’s Hospitality and Food Service industry.

Overview of waste in the hospitality and food service sector

The cost of food being wasted in the UK from the UK hospitality and food service (HaFS) sector is estimated at £2.5...

Improving the quality of food grade recycled PET

WRAP has carried out research to improve the quality of recycled PET (rPET) for use in food packaging, thus enabling the material to be...

Textiles Collection Guide

This report reveals that consumers are throwing out almost one million tonnes of textiles, mainly clothes, shoes and linens like bedding...

Resource Maps for drinks

The objective of this project was to develop a series of resource maps for twelve key product groups within the UK drinks sector,...

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Estimates for household food and drink waste in the UK 2011
Valuing our clothes

WRAP’s ground breaking report provides the first big picture look at the financial and environmental impacts of clothing. 

Life cycle assessment of example packaging systems for milk

January 2010

Two life cycle assessment reports and a foreword covering the potential environmental impact of different example...

The composition of waste disposed of by the UK Hospitality industry

Research shows that hotels, pubs, restaurants and quick service restaurants could save an estimated £724 million a year by...

Recyclability of black plastic packaging

Where plastic packaging is required to be black in colour, WRAP encourages retailers, brand owners and packaging manufacturers to use...

Plastic film packaging

Plastic film can be made with different polymers, each with unique properties, that make it ideal for certain applications, such as...

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