Resources
The Sustainable Clothing Guide is a practical guide to help brands and retailers to enhance the durability and quality of the clothing they produce.
- Textiles
- Fibre & fabric selection
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Design for extending clothing life
- SCAP 2020
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Retailers and brands
- Textiles sourcers, producers and designers
This guidance details the use of food-based digestate across a diverse range of markets in the landscape and regeneration sectors.
- Collections & recycling
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
Guidance for farmers, growers, advisers and agricultural contractors on how to maximise the benefits of using digestate and compost as renewable fertilisers.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Organics
- Re-use and recycling
- Farmers and growers
These guides take the reader through communicating re-use and the process step-by-step to support the delivery of effective communications.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide informs anyone funding or running HWRC sites of the options and opportunities available when introducing or improving re-use services. See download for the 2016 review of HWRC re-use shops.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide provides an overview of the steps required to procure a good practice bulky waste service that maximises re-use.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide provides a step by step approach to developing a re-use baseline and using it to monitor and evaluate progress.
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide will help you to identify what can be achieved, engage with stakeholders, set up frames of reference and an action plan. It includes examples and case studies of re-use from across the UK and a handy 'lessons' learnt' section.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations
This guide sets out how to produce a re-use action plan which is a key element of any re-use strategy. It addresses the who, how, what and when of the actions needed that will ultimately deliver your objectives.
- Re-use and recycling
- Waste management and reprocessors
Waste prevention activities can be focused on particular waste materials and products. Please follow the links below for more information on the individual materials and how waste prevention activities can be formed around them.
- Reducing and preventing food waste
- Measuring and reporting food waste
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use & recycling
- Collections & recycling
- Consumer behaviour
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
It is essential to create a market demand for re-used items. There are a number of barriers which prevent consumers choosing re-used items. Local authorities can work to remove these barriers through their communications campaigns.
- Re-use and recycling
- Local Authorities
- Non-governmental organisations