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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.

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.

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

Listed in this document are the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the WRAP Cymru Circular Economy Fund – Small Scale Grant Programme.  If you have any questions specific to the fund that are not answered in this document or answered in the Small Scale Guidance Document, you can email us at CEFWales@wrap.org.uk

Listed below are the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the Circular Economy Fund – Large Scale Grant Programme.  If you have any questions specific to the fund that are not answered in this document or in the Large Scale Guidance Document you can email us at CEFWales@wrap.org.uk. If you have been invited to apply for funding, please send your questions via the Delta e-portal once you are registered.

Wales has achieved great success in recycling and has come a long way in improving the recycling of plastics from households, achieving a 75% recycling rate for plastic bottles. It was also the first nation in the UK to introduce a single use carrier bag charge. However, there’s still work to do.