Tag: WRAP

84% of UK households are unintentionally contaminating their recycling bins

Stuart Mitchell

New public insights released by Recycle Now – part of climate action NGO, WRAP – have found that we are a nation of wish cyclers,with the vast majority of well-intentioned households trying to recycle items that should not go in the recycling bin, in an effort to do their bit. Contaminants affect the quality of the recycling, its value and in extreme cases mean that the recycling has to be disposed of rather than recycled. In response, this year’s Recycle Week 2022 (17th – 23rd October 2022) was themed ‘Let’s…

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UK’s wardrobes hold 1.6 billion items of unworn clothes People open to new ways of shopping

Stuart Mitchell

The largest study into clothing habits ever undertaken by climate action NGO WRAP shows changes over the last 8 years around how long we retain our clothes, and how our openness to new ways of clothes ‘shopping’ could significantly reduce the environmental cost of clothing the nation – and save shoppers millions of pounds. Between 2013 and 2021, the predicted length of time people in the UK kept a range of clothes increased. Today, non-padded coats and jackets have the longest lifespans at more than six years apiece, while underwear…

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Cost conscious consumers are adjusting household behaviours but untapped cost savings lie in food waste

Stuart Mitchell

This International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, Hellmann’s and WRAP have released a new four market study[1] on latest food waste behaviours. The study indicates that nearly half of respondents throw away as much food or more than they did this time last year[2], revealing an opportunity for consumers to save more by reducing waste in their homes. For 1 in 3 people, the amount of food they waste is equivalent to putting one shopping bag of food[3] in the bin each week (ALL 31% AUS 30%…

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WRAP shows G7 how to save 0.8 billion tonnes of CO2eq emissions with greater focus on consumption-based emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Global climate action NGO WRAP has produced a report for the G7 in support of the seismic shift in international strategies tackling greenhouse gas emissions expected to take place soon, and to help address the massive volume of greenhouse gases linked to ‘consumption’ currently passing unchecked into the atmosphere every year. With G7 countries controlling or influencing a quarter (27%) of all global emissions, WRAP welcomed the announcement earlier this year that the G7 would increase focus on making resource efficiency and circular economy the norm and pursuing sustainable consumption…

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84% of UK households are unintentionally contaminating their recycling bins

Stuart Mitchell

New public insights released by Recycle Now – part of climate action NGO, WRAP – have found that we are a nation of wish cyclers, with the vast majority of well-intentioned households trying to recycle items that should not go in the recycling bin, in an effort to do their bit. Contaminants affect the quality of the recycling, its value and in extreme cases mean that the recycling has to be disposed of rather than recycled. In response, this year’s Recycle Week 2022 (17th – 23rd October 2022) is themed…

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