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
‘Bioplastics’ can be a confusing word, having different terms, claims, standards, and use/disposal considerations compared to conventional, fossil-based plastics. To ensure that usage is appropriate, this guidance document aims to give businesses the tools to make the right decisions.
- Plastic Packaging
- The UK Plastics Pact
- Manufacturers
- National government and departments
- Public sector
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
Through Welsh Government funded support for sustainable public sector procurement, WRAP Cymru has developed new guidance providing an overview of whole life costing (WLC) and how it can help public bodies in Wales achieve their sustainable procurement goals.
- Public Sector Procurement Support
- Public sector
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
In 2021, the Welsh Government unveiled its ambitious 'Beyond Recycling Strategy,' a blueprint for transforming Wales into a circular economy. To gauge citizen behaviours and track progress in re-use, repair, and rental/leasing, WRAP has revamped its 2015 3Rs (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle) survey.
- Recycled content in manufacturing
- Re-use and repair
- Manufacturers
- Non-governmental organisations
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
Circular Procurement Guidance
Through Welsh government funded support for sustainable public sector procurement, WRAP has developed new circular procurement guidance on giving furniture a second life.
- Public Sector Procurement Support
- Re-use and repair
- Public sector
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
The tool is intended to help support greater collaboration between the many businesses that make up Wales’ wood sector.
It provides businesses with the opportunity to further enhance their understanding of the Welsh wood sector.
- Recycled content in manufacturing
- Circular Economy Fund
- Manufacturers
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
The tool is intended to help support greater collaboration between the many businesses that make up Wales’ paper sector.
It provides businesses with the opportunity to further enhance their understanding of the Welsh paper sector.
- Recycled content in manufacturing
- Circular Economy Fund
- Manufacturers
- Organisations extending the life-time of products
The tool is intended to help support greater collaboration between the many businesses that make up Wales’ plastics sector.
It provides businesses with the opportunity to further enhance their understanding of the Welsh plastics sector.
- Recycled content in manufacturing
- Plastic Packaging
- Circular Economy Fund
- Manufacturers
- Organisations extending the life-time of products