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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.

In 2021, the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), The
National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) commissioned social enterprise Ministry of Furniture (MoF), based in Port Talbot, South Wales, to fit out a new office space in Cardiff.

The project was commissioned via the Welsh Government Provision of Furniture Solutions Framework which has remanufactured and re-use as a core part its offering. The Framework was designed to enable Public Sector buyers in Wales to choose a more sustainable approach to sourcing items of furniture.

An estimated 80% of NHS Wales’ carbon footprint is directly linked to the goods and services they purchase. As part of a drive to shift the NHS towards more sustainable consumption, and cut carbon and waste, it is essential that items such as wheelchairs are maintained and used to their full potential.

This report brings together several strands of work (reports, surveys and presentations) completed by partners as part of a Digital Deposit Return Scheme (DDRS) pilot in Conwy, run during June and July 2021.

In 2020 Welsh Government requested WRAP Cymru, through the Collaborative Change Programme, undertake a high-level assessment of the potential impacts of a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) on Welsh local authorities’ waste collection services.

In 2019, WRAP Cymru’s Collaborative Change Programme (CCP) was commissioned by Welsh Government (WG) to prepare a report providing a detailed response to recommendation R2 of the report “Waste Management in Wales: Municipal Recycling” prepared for the Auditor General for Wales by the Welsh Audit Office (WAO), dated 15th November 2018.

In 2018, Hywel Dda University Health Board began exploring ways to save money and resources, with an emphasis on recognising when equipment could be re-used rather than replaced.

This guidance document supports the Welsh Government’s ambition to deliver a circular economy for Wales.

Workers carrying out kerbside collections of glass for recycling can be exposed to high levels of noise.

In 2011, WRAP published the findings of a series of noise surveys that advised how all recycling collection systems had the potential to generate noise exposure levels which could potentially exceed action values defined in the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005, and that some vehicles and collections had the potential to breach legal limits.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) intends to procure £9 million worth of young trees to plant in Wales. They are keen to take a sustainable approach and to help deliver upon public policy goals. These include those of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, Prosperity for All: A Low Carbon Wales and the ambitions set out in Beyond Recycling: A strategy to make the circular economy in Wales a reality.

This guidance document supports the Welsh Government’s ambition to deliver a circular economy for Wales.

Welsh Government has set an ambitious decarbonisation target – to reduce emissions by at least 45% by 2030. To achieve this, a target has also been set for the Welsh public sector to become carbon neutral by 2030. This document has been designed to help public sector organisations embed sustainability into their procurement processes and make low carbon material choices.

This document is aimed at procurement teams, senior management, procurement services, facilities and operational management, elected members and waste teams within national and local government, health, education, emergency services and other public sector bodies. It provides basic information that public bodies in Wales can draw upon and use to tackle the environmental impact of plastic.