Resources
We need your views, ideas, challenges and suggestions on what steps need to be taken by all Welsh residents, businesses and organisations to become a universal culture of repair and re-use.
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
The Benefits of Reuse tool is an Excel-based model to estimate economic, environmental, and social indicators for re-use compared to other disposal routes. This can be used to measure the impacts of existing reuse schemes, model the potential benefits of reuse, and understand the trade-offs between different impacts of re-use.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and repair
- Local Authorities
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
Welsh Government and WRAP Cymru are working together to promote re-use and repair activity in Wales and have established a practitioners’ working group to act in an advisory role. Through this work, digital opportunities were identified as important to support growth of the sector.
This landscape review was carried out to identify the range of digital platforms, directories and resources that exist within the re-use and repair sector in Wales and the UK and to understand the scope, purpose and variety of services offered.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and repair
- Local Authorities
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
This case study highlights how Wastesavers provides local employment, supplies affordable products to those in need, keeps products in use for longer and generates income through upcycling to support these overlying objectives.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and repair
- Local Authorities
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
This case study is to highlight the benefits of a circular approach to re-use, repair and recycling/upcycling, and the commercial opportunities this provides.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and repair
- Local Authorities
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
Unlocking the Future of Plastic Film Recycling in the UK: A Groundbreaking Trial
- Collaborative Change Programme
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Circular Economy Fund
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
The Recycling Tracker is an annual survey of UK households that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.
The survey uses boost sampling in Wales to provide a robust, enhanced sample of Welsh citizens. Fieldwork was undertaken online, from 20 - 30 March 2023. A total of 5,343 interviews were undertaken UK-wide with adults who have responsibility for dealing with the rubbish and recycling in the home. This included a sample of 1,004 adults in Wales. The sample matches the known profile of the Welsh population, with quotas set on age, gender and region.
- Collaborative Change Programme
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Public sector
Waste Composition
In order to develop a solution to the issues created by waste, it is important to know what the waste is made up of. To address this, WRAP Cymru has commissioned analyses into the composition of municipal waste and litter.
- Collaborative Change Programme
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Public sector
WRAP and Recycle Now's recycling tracker provides insights into UK citizen’s attitudes towards recycling as well as a greater understanding of their recycling related behaviours. It is an annual survey of UK citizens that gathers evidence on recycling attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. It is the largest and longest running of its kind, having been undertaken by WRAP since 2004.
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Public sector
New Welsh Food Waste Roadmap from WRAP identifies a suite of interventions which could deliver reductions in food waste across the supply chain. A comprehensive review of evidence identifies how the mechanisms can work and have worked when applied elsewhere in the world.
- Food and drink
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
Waste composition analysis of kerbside and HWRC collected textiles.
The aim of the composition analysis was to understand more about the quality of textiles within the household waste recycling centre (HWRC) and kerbside recycling streams, and its potential for re-use.
- Collaborative Change Programme
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Public sector
This Advisory Note is designed to provide advice to waste site designers, waste site operators, Welsh local authority drainage officers and sustainable drainage system (SuDS) approval bodies (SABs) on the application of SuDS requirements in Wales, specifically for waste sites.
- Collaborative Change Programme
- Collections & recycling
- Local Authorities
- National government and departments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Public sector