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This guidance document supports the Welsh Government’s ambition to deliver a circular economy for Wales. This guide aims to help public and private sector clients and contractors to:

• Consider whole life carbon impacts linked to the purchase of built assets, their design and construction and in particular, the selection of materials with lower embodied carbon over the built asset's lifetime.
• Enhance the application of circular economy outcomes.
• Enhance high quality re-use, recycling, and avoidance of waste to landfill.
• Clearly define relevant procurement requirements and set out expectations. 

Getting Started

The demonstrations below show you how to get the information you need from the Materials Map. 

Funded by the Welsh Government, the Circular Materials Mapping Tool has been developed by WRAP Cymru with support from Resilience Sustainable Solutions and Green Edge Applications Limited. 

The Circular Materials Map is intended to help support greater collaboration between the many businesses that make up Wales’ plastics and paper sectors. It provides businesses with the opportunity to further enhance their understanding of the plastics and paper industries with the overarching aim of creating a plastics and paper circular economy within Wales.

The following organisations are available to support you:

These organisations can provide information and support on waste management to help you to contribute to the circular economy within Wales.

Getting Started

The demonstrations below show you how to get the information you need from the Materials Map.

Getting Started

The demonstrations below show you how to get the information you need from the Circular Materials Map.

Getting Started

The demonstrations below show you how to get the information you need from the Materials Map.

Getting Started

The demonstrations below show you how to get the information you need from the Materials Map.

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

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.

As part of our candidate application and recruitment process WRAP collects, processes and stores personal information about you. WRAP is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

It is essential that you read this document carefully as it will help you to make a successful grant application.