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This guidance on bring site recycling has been designed to help local authorities improve the performance of bring recycling sites and ensure they are a valuable element of the overall recycling service local authorities offer to residents.

This guidance was produced as part of the Household Waste Collection Commitment to support signatories in delivering better recycling services for residents.

WRAP has been gathering evidence on householders’ attitudes, knowledge and behaviour in relation to recycling in England since 2004, and separately for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales since 2011. The purpose of the Recycling Tracker, a large scale annual survey across the UK, is to continue to gather high-quality evidence on consumers’ current attitudes, awareness and reported behaviour in relation to recycling in order to inform policy and practice.

Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is a two tier partnership, established in 2007 to manage waste services on behalf of its six partners. The SWP combines waste service functions under a single joint committee of Councillors and is responsible for the management of kerbside collections, recycling centres and disposal sites, awarding a single county-wide collection contract.

A review of the quantity of paper and card packaging being placed on the market (POM) and recycled in 2014. The project also projected future POM figures and recycling rates to 2020.

This report explores case studies of new, innovative business models of clothing retailing which may be better suited to an economy where businesses and consumers are facing the impact of resource constraints and higher raw material costs.

This report looks at key developments in the markets for UK recovered textiles (clothing and non-clothing excluding carpets and mattresses), including trends in supply, demand and prices.

This report details research exploring how long people keep and regularly wear their clothes for.

This set of reports and case studes details materials flows, branded workwear, feedstock and values, and washing and drying looks at the opportunities available for market development, recovery and re-use of textiles.

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The chart below shows estimated flows of plastic packaging from where they arise to the final end markets in 2014

The chart below shows the growth in UK exports of reocvered textiles from 1996 to 2015 (based on annualised Jan-Nov data).