The Procurement team has a wide range of publications that you may find useful.
A web-based tool that helps you calculate the waste arising on your construction project, shows how you can improve your recycled content and quantifies the overall Net Waste for the project.
These materials can also be used for the Net Waste Tool.
This guide will help manufacturers of products containing recycled content to accurately calculate and declare the amount of recycled content.
A guidance document to assist clients and contractors in setting requirements in their procurement documentation.
A summary of the main guidance document.
A study assessing 14 mainstream construction products across twelve different environmental performance indicators, comparing products with standard levels of recycled content with those with good practice levels.
A summary document of the "Environmental impact of higher recycled content in construction projects" study.
A step-by-step guide for local authority procurement teams to embed recycling and reuse of road materials into all highways contracts and schemes.
WRAP has developed guidance to assist construction clients, design teams and main contractors achieve good practice waste minimisation and management (WMM) on their construction projects setting out why it is important, who should implement it and and how it can be made an explicit requirement of the procurement process.
An executive summary complementing the mid-level Achieving Good Practice Waste Minimisation & Management document. This document sets out the business case for construction clients and developers to adopt good practice site waste minimisation and management on their construction projects.
An on-line and downloadable guide which provides details of a range of products and materials with higher recycled content commonly used in construction projects.
The Procurement team has been working across a range of sectors with exemplar projects to demonstrate how simple adopting a recycled content rquirement can be.
Documents to assist councillors in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
A range of Quick Win guides including: commercial construction, house-building, and preliminary building works and civil engineering.
The Procurement team have developed a number of sector-specific newsletters, including education and housing.
A new standard metric for measuring waste neutrality.
