Toolkits & Good Practice
English local authorities have challenging recycling targets to meet. Similarly challenging targets have been set by the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Use the toolkits to assist you with your recycling efforts, whilst the good practice documents provide the results of local authority-related studies carried out by WRAP.
Toolkits
Kerbside Analysis Tool (KAT)
The Kerbside Analysis Tool (KAT) is in the format of an easy-to-use spreadsheet, which allows users to make projections of kerbside collection infrastructure and associated standardised costs. Information Sheet
Materials Recovery Facilities
Materials recovery facilities (MRFs) are increasingly important in providing quality raw materials to industry. More and more local authorities are sending materials to MRFs and WRAP has drawn together good practice guidance on MRF operations, MRF costs and contractual arrangements with MRFs.
Vehicle Procurement Checklist
A clear checklist that can be used online or printed. It contains a series of questions and factors to consider when devising a specification for kerbside recycling collection vehicles and equipment.
Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance
Monitoring and evaluation are necessary to measure the effectiveness of campaigns and thus demonstrate return on investment of time and money.
The Monitoring and Evaluation toolkit provides you with practical, easy-to-use information on how to develop effective monitoring and evaluation programmes, and how to execute these programmes.
Model Contracts
The model contracts are template documents that can be used as the starting point for contract negotiations. They are flexible and enable you to customise the contracts to your needs, providing various options to chose from.
The Collection Services Wizard allows you to create your own Recycling Services Contract. You are taken through a number of simple steps where you are either asked to fill in key information, or to make decisions about the type of services contract you are looking for.
The Collection Services Wizard allows you to create your own Recycling Services Contract. You are taken through a number of simple steps where you are either asked to fill in key information, or to make decisions about the type of services contract you are looking for.
Materials Pricing Report
The Materials Pricing Report is a resource produced by the Environment Exchange, on behalf of WRAP, to help both collectors and buyers of recyclables commonly present in the household waste stream to gain access to up-to-date information on the market price of these materials. The aim of the Report is to give collectors more information on the state of the market at a given time, and to assist decision-making when deciding on sale or sourcing of recyclables.
Good Practice
Low Participation Areas
Effective communications can improve recycling performance in Low Participation Areas (LPAs). LPAs can exhibit complex inter-related characteristics which affect participation. Correctly identifying all the relevant factors is the key to an effective communications plan. This decision making tool helps you through the process of developing such a plan.
Alternate Weekly Collections, Guidance for Local Authorities
This guidance is intended to help local authorities decide whether AWC is right for them and provides advice on how to design and implement a scheme which is effective, and which gains and retains the support of local people.
Glass Collection Guidance for Local Authorities
Developing the case for specifying a minimum recycled content in glass packaging.
Door to Door Canvassing Guidance
The guidance uses experience gained from canvassing projects and offers advice to ensure canvassing campaigns are successful. Local authority case studies illustrate how campaigns can be run locally.
Local Awareness Recycling Communications Campaign Case Studies
Case studies showing different communication methods and geographical locations throughout England funded through Wrap’s Local Awareness Communications Fund during 2004 – 2006.
Guidance on Developing Collection Calendars
(699 kb)
Kerbside collection calendars are an essential communication tool for most local authorities. They enable authorities to provide essential information to householders about their waste and recycling services with instructions on how to participate.
Basic Design Principles
(144 kb)
These guidelines give basic and practical suggestions on the design of effective communications. These principles can be applied to collection calendars, leaflets, adverts and other marketing communications
Design & Print Guidance V2
(200 kb)
This document takes you through the design, development and print processes for producing promotional literature.
Procurement and the efficient use of Material Resources
(305 kb)
The challenge you face is to make your council's spend on goods and services work better – to keep council taxes down,achieve efficiency savings, deliver value for money and a genuine quality of life that local people will appreciate.
Best practice procurement ('smarter spending') is a key to achieving these outcomes.
Best practice procurement ('smarter spending') is a key to achieving these outcomes.
Engaging Black and Minority Ethnic Communitites in Recycling Activity
The UK is a vibrant and multi-cultural society and communicating recycling messages to a wide ethnic audience is important.
