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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.  

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.