Tag: WRAP

Recycling Roadmap for Flexible Plastics launches

Stuart Mitchell

A long-awaited solution to a major plastic recycling challenge has been revealed in a report and blueprint launched in Parliament this week. The report, titled “The Future of Recycling Flexible Plastic Packaging in the UK,” provides a comprehensive blueprint detailing how flexible plastics, such as food packaging, film, and carrier bags, can be cost-effectively collected and recycled. The report is the result of the three-year FlexCollect project which piloted different collection and processing methods for flexible plastics across 10 local authorities and 160,000 households across England. The work was led…

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Price is irrelevant when it comes to the durability of your t-shirt

Stuart Mitchell

A new academic study by the University of Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) with global environmental action NGO WRAP has concluded that price has very little to do with the durability of most t-shirts sold in the UK, and that spending more money doesn’t guarantee the item will be more hard-wearing.   The findings were presented by PhD student Kate Baker to the Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) Conference in Aalborg, Denmark and were developed as part of a clothing durability project through the UK Textiles Pact – WRAP’s ten-year…

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Are UK Businesses Leaving Money on the Table?

Stuart Mitchell

A new report assessing 200 UK businesses and 1,500 consumers has revealed how a growing number of Circular Living strategies are helping many to improve their financial performance and mitigate against future uncertainties linked to climate change.  Produced by global environmental action NGO WRAP and OC&C Strategy Consultants the report Are Businesses Leaving Money on the Table? – Creating Value through Circularity examines how a range of Circular Living strategies are now becoming more commonplace in UK boardrooms.  It shows how early adopters are benefiting from revenue growth, competitive advantages and…

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UK’s largest grocery retailers set sights on prefill to take more single use packaging off shelf

Stuart Mitchell

Nine of the UK’s largest grocery retailers, with support from UK Governments and WRAP, have recently issued a joint Statement of Intent to explore how reusable packaging could be implemented across their stores and online.  The plan is to offer a system that makes it easy to shop for prefilled* items in stores and online and marks a bold commitment towards a standardised in-store and online system to reduce the amount of single use packaging put on the market, to give shoppers a better experience outside of single use packaging. …

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Household food waste levels threaten UK’s carbon reduction ambitions

Stuart Mitchell

Latest data from global environmental action NGO, WRAP shows that household food waste decreased by 9% between 2021 to 2022. This reduction was catalysed by two main factors: Covid-19 restrictions lifting meaning less food was eaten at home in 2022, and the rise of food prices during 2022 and into 2023, particularly up to December 2022 when food prices increased by approximately 17%.  Given this decrease, WRAP’s new estimate (2022) of the food waste from UK households stands at 6 million tonnes. This includes food in waste streams collected by…

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