Recycling has been a global success story for the last two decades, delivering significant environmental and economic benefits. But we still have a long way to go to transform waste management systems around the world to a new approach of design, make, reuse where we capture the value of materials so that they feed back into the economy.
To ensure we can deliver this change across resource management collections, services and infrastructure we need to target action and investment. We work to improve recycling infrastructure and municipal recycling, implement extended producer responsibility schemes and embed policies that drive efficient resource management around the world.
Our range of support and services help investors, producers, and collectors to build facilities that will turn waste products into valuable assets. And through our collaborative action programmes we are connecting organisations with the right initiatives and information to support more efficient and sustainable resource management.
Our solutions
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Policy design and development
Our technical experts are key to the work we do both in the UK and around the world. By providing tools, reports and expert guidance, they help national governments, local authorities and businesses to implement policies that support Circular Living from waste prevention to recycling.
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Public sector procurement
We’ve been working with the Welsh Government on strategic support to embed sustainable and low carbon principles into procurement to help achieve a net-zero public sector in Wales by 2030. This approach aligns with their procurement policy and Beyond Recycling strategy, accelerating Wales’s journey towards a circular economy.
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Extender Producer Responsibility
We are working with governments and businesses across the world to tackle the growing issue of problematic waste. One way to do this is by providing expert guidance using regulatory practices like Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
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Local authority recycling in the UK
We’ve been supporting governments for over 20 years to implement policies that encourage citizens and businesses to move towards a sustainable world where Circular Living is commonplace. We examine the sustainability challenges in people’s day-to-day lives and offer strategic, technical and communications support to catalyse action in resource management.
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Local authority recycling in Wales
WRAP Cymru’s Collaborative Change Programme (CCP) for Wales offers strategic, technical and communications support to help local authorities develop and deliver detailed plans to achieve the outcomes of Welsh Government’s national waste strategy.
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Business of Recycling
New regulations require businesses to separate recyclable materials from general waste. Our free practical guides, resources and waste calculator can support businesses.
The progress we’re making
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Global Treaty to end plastic pollution
Discover how WRAP is working with partners to promote a legally binding international agreement that uses a comprehensive circular economy approach, prioritising elimination, minimisation and reuse.
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Recycle Week
Since 2004 Recycle Week has delivered the nation's largest recycling behaviour change campaign. Through an ambitious mix of film, social media, on street initiatives, influencers, radio and PR, Recycle Week has encouraged citizens to recycle, using the power of its one voice.
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Wales: leading the way to a circular economy
Discover how Wales has transformed its recycling systems and cemented itself as a circular economy leader.
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Resource Action Fund
An £18 million fund, provided by Defra to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing, and better managing waste. With impacts set to grow over time, the impact of the interventions has diverted over 180,871 tonnes of waste and is estimated to have avoided over 395,228 tonnes of CO2e emissions.
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Global Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme
WRAP has delivered a multi-million-pound global programme working with partners to deliver change in plastic pollution hotspots across India, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia.
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Recycling Tracker survey in the UK: Spring 2024
We’ve been tracking the attitudes, knowledge and behaviour of citizens in the UK for 20 years. These highlight the critical issues we must tackle in order to make real progress.