Press Releases and News
Our Press Releases and News are all below. If you are a member of the media with a question, please call our Press Office on 01295 819 677 / 01295 819 695 or email press.office@wrap.org.uk (if outside business hours, please call 07951 346 196).
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04 January 2009
It is still a better option both financially and environmentally for councils and their council tax payers to recycle rather than send to landfill, even if councils face higher storage charges temporarily.
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19 December 2008
The Environment Agency, Local Government Association (LGA) and Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) today urged the public to continue recycling during the festive season, with evidence that prices for materials have stabilised.
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11 December 2008
With a quarter of us planning to buy electrical or electronic goods as presents this Christmas, many old items will be gathering dust in our cupboards and cluttering up our houses.
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10 December 2008
Leading companies across the construction supply chain have committed to collectively halve the amount of construction waste sent to landfill by 2012. Just a few weeks after the launch of The Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill, over 30 organisations have signed up to WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) voluntary agreement - including leading clients and contractors, Land Securities, Defence Estates and Laing O’Rourke.
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04 December 2008
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), the Government’s waste advisor, is set to launch a new advice forum for local authorities to help them deal with lower prices and weaker demand for recyclable materials.
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27 November 2008
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) will announce in Belfast today, a £5.9m turnover increase in recycling and reprocessing businesses it supports in Northern Ireland.
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27 November 2008
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) today announces new funding to boost the Welsh recycling and reprocessing sector. The Welsh Assembly Government funding, managed by WRAP Cymru, will be available to companies tackling commercial food waste - such as that from food factories and ready meal manufacturers – and waste from construction, demolition and excavation. As well as boosting the Welsh economy, the aim is to keep waste out of landfill, and provide businesses in Wales with locally sourced reprocessed material. This will save them time and money in having to seek materials from outside the country, and will reduce CO2 emissions from transport.
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27 November 2008
Today WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) announced a new programme of work on Geosystems – a holistic approach to reducing cost, carbon and landfill, benefiting the whole construction supply chain.
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27 November 2008
WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) will be running a series of workshops to encourage construction projects to reduce costs, carbon emissions and improve resource efficiency by using hydraulically bound materials (HBMs).
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11 November 2008
Electrical goods with recycled content will soon be available on the high street thanks to a WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) funded project. Indesit has become the first company to successfully incorporate recycled content derived from the UK waste stream within white goods on a large scale. The project delivers substantial savings in raw materials and costs.
