The webinar series for local authorities is designed to help make your waste and recycling collections more efficient.
The webinars cover the plastics recycling landscape in the UK; training for crews; and communications, and they range from bite-size 20 minute sessions, to more in-depth, one hour-long discussions. You can watch again below.
The Plastics Economy
WRAP has just released the Plastics Market Situation report, providing an update on the latest economic, market and regulatory trends affecting the capture and recycling of plastics. Join WRAP economist Peter Sainsbury, in a discussion on key developments in the sector, specifically looking at how the amount of packaging produced, and the closing of overseas export markets could impact local authorities. We’ll be looking at plastics, paper, textiles, metal cans, and relevant gate fees.
Navigating the Resource Library
The WRAP Resource Library hosts all of our best resources from Recycle Now, Love Food Hate Waste, and Love your Clothes. It’s your one-stop-shop for engaging citizens in action in your local area. However, it can be tricky to navigate and we want to make sure that you can find what you are looking for, when you need it.
Join us in this bite-size webinar to run through how the platform works and to ensure you can find what you need, every time.
Train the trainer: helping crews act on contamination
This webinar will help collection crews understand the problems caused by contamination in dry recycling. We will run-through our practical and interactive training sessions, which you can adapt to your own collection system and procedures on dealing with contaminated containers. The training has been designed to change thinking and crew behaviours and has grown from WRAP’s successful historic crew programme.
It can be adapted to run as one long, two shorter, or three snappy training sessions. We recommend that our training is used in tandem with effective supervision and encouragement of crews, to ensure their action on contamination sticks.
Useful resources
- Cost of Contamination toolkit: Calculate an estimate of the true cost of contamination within your recycling service
- Contamination in Recycling webinar: Ideas on how to tackle contamination in your area, including detail on the importance of the two-part feedback approach
- Communicating contamination with residents: Ready-made materials to help advise residents on contamination
- Presentation for crews: Ready-made presentation template for you to use in your own training. Please email us to request this
- Resource Pack: Full workbook on how to deliver a training session, including all activities and materials mentioned in the webinar. Please email us to request this
- Questions and Answers from the webinar
Editing WRAP communications materials
Join Marketing Executive, Harriet Rockliff-Nally, in a simple walk-through of how to edit and adapt WRAP communications materials, using Adobe InDesign. Harriet uses our newly created contamination materials as an example, demonstrating how they can be edited and tailored to support your local authority. Make sure you share this webinar with your communications teams!
