| 2000 | WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) was set up to promote sustainable waste management. |
| 2004 | We launched our Recycle Now campaign, which was taken up by 60% local authorities in its first year. |
| 2005 | WRAP's PAS100 was published, enabling the composting industry to demonstrate the quality of its product. |
| Courtauld Commitment 1, our voluntary agreement designed to reduce waste across the UK grocery sector, was signed by major UK supermarkets. | |
| 2006 | We published Environmental Benefits of Recycling which demonstrated that recycling is environmentally worthwhile compared with other ways of managing waste. |
| 2007 | We launched our Love Food Hate Waste consumer campaign. |
| 2008 | We published our ground-breaking research The Food We Waste which showed for the first time the true extent of waste. |
| 2009 | Over the four-year period of Courtauld Commitment 1 (2005-9), 1.2 million tonnes of food and packaging waste was prevented, saving 3.3 million tonnes of CO2e (carbon emissions) |
| We published Meeting the UK Climate Change Challenge: The Contribution of Resource Efficiency which showed that improving resource efficiency could contribute almost 10% of the required reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. | |
| In conjunction with the British Retail Consortium, we launched a new on-pack label to help consumers recycle packaging more easily. | |
| 2010 | Courtauld Commitment 2, our second voluntary agreement for the UK grocery sector was launched. |
| WRAP's PAS110 quality standard for digestate is published by BSI, enabling the anaerobic digestion industry to demonstrate the quality of its product. | |
| 2011 | We published our review of our 2008-11 business plan period, which showed that by 2011 we had helped divert more than 12 million tonnes of waste from landfill each year and avoided annual Co2e emissions of over 6 million tonnes. |
| 2012 | Between 2010 and 2012, Courtauld Commitment 2 achieved a reduction in waste of 1.7 million tonnes. |
| Our Hospitality and Food Service Agreement launched with more than 70 signatories, to support the sector in reducing waste. | |
| We concluded our very successful Halving Waste to Landfill agreement, which saw more than 800 companies sign up and positively influenced construction to the value of more than £40 billion. | |
| WRAP successfully bid to lead an EU LIFE-funded project on Developing Resource Efficient Business Models (REBUS). | |
| 2013 | WRAP launched its Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP), bringing together textile manufacturers and fashion brands to reduce water consumption, carbon emissions and waste. |
| 2014 | WRAP launched its Love Your Clothes consumer campaign, inspiring and empowering consumers to reuse and recycle clothing. |
| Electricals and Electronics Sustainability Action Plan (esap), brings together electrical and electronics manufacturers and retailers to improve the business efficiency and sustainability of electrical and electronic products throughout their lifecycle. | |
| WRAP became a registered charity. | |
| 2015 | We published the results of our very successful ARID programme which helped the recycling industry invest in Wales, recycling, re-using or reducing nearly 400,00 tonnes of waste and creating 178 new jobs. |
| WRAP successfully bid to lead an EU LIFE-funded European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP), to reduce the waste, water and carbon footprints of EU clothing. | |
| We published our Food Futures report which showed how the UK might move from 'business as usual' to 'business unusual'. | |
| WRAP successfully bid to lead an EU LIFE-funded Critical Raw Material Closed Loop Recovery (‘CRM Recovery’) project to explore the commercial opportunities for harvesting critical raw materials from electrical products. | |
| 2016 | We launched our 10 year producer to consumer voluntary agreement Courtauld Commitment 2025 - to make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable. |
