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 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.
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04 November 2008
A survey* commissioned for Love Food Hate Waste suggests that British workers are shelling out £5.5bn on shop-bought lunches each year, while they leave almost the same value of perfectly good lunch foods at home to go off.
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05 November 2008
Significant raw material and cost savings, improved environmental credentials and substantial CO2 reductions are among the benefits the wine industry has experienced thanks to a groundbreaking project - GlassRite Wine. The project is now entering its second and international phase and invites the wine industry to become involved.
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05 November 2008
Significant reductions in material use and carbon emissions are just some of the benefits from the bottle lightweighting work by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and 60 beer and cider brands including Cobra Beer, Hall & Woodhouse, Scottish & Newcastle and Thatchers.
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24 October 2008
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched a new Capital Grant Programme aimed at increasing capacity for reclaiming and recycling the non-inert fractions of construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Scotland.
