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Our impact

WRAP's work with its partners is making a visible, measurable difference to the way the UK uses and thinks about resources.

Our vision is a world without waste, where resources are used sustainably.

We work with businesses, individuals and communities to help them reap the benefits of reducing waste, developing sustainable products and using resources in an efficient way.

Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by Government fuding from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the European Union.

Business Plan 2011-15

  • 7 million tonnes less carbon dioxide equivalent emitted a year.
  • 3 million tonnes less biodegradable waste going to landfill a year.
  • £1.9billion saved by consumers, businesses and the public sector a year.
  • £130million growth in the resource management sector a year.
  • 3 million tonnes less primary resources used a year.
  • 2 million tonnes less waste produced a year.

Measuring our impact

Evaluating the impact of our work is important. It helps us account to our funders and show we have spent money wisely. And as a publicly-funded organisation it is crucial that we are honest about our impacts.

We have five principles which guide us when evaluating our impact:

  1. Impact evaluation should be arms’ length and evidence-based
  2. Impacts should only be reported where we are responsible for them
  3. Impacts should be reported on a ‘per annum’ and a lifetime basis
  4. Impacts won’t be double counted
  5. Impacts should be measured for each nation of the UK separately

We report publicly on our impacts at the end of each business plan period. In between we carry out annual impact assessments and verification exercises to check whether our programmes are on track to deliver against their targets. Results are shared with our funders. In addition we provide our funders with a quarterly progress report that includes estimates of progress against targets.

For more information on our approach to impact evaluation, please email evaluation@wrap.org.uk

Annual impact resulting from our activities with partners in the 2008-11 business plan period

The table shows results on a like-for-like basis including programmes delivered against our original targets.  We also show the overall impact including work taken on during 2008-11 (not covered by our original targets).

Annual impact table

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