Procurement

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Sustainable procurement

Helping you make sustainable choices

Sustainable procurement e-learning

Free online training modules and guidance

Construction procurement guidance

Embed resource efficiency requirements in your documentation

European Pathway to Zero Waste

Helping to reduce waste to landfill

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Resource efficient and sustainable buying

Resource efficient and sustainable outcomes can be built into the standard buying process using a category management approach.

Risks

Pressure from increasing population and growing wealth is putting pressure on the world’s resources.  The impacts are widespread...

Benefits

Around £1bn (0.9% of household expenditure on food and drink) can be saved by the food and drink sector by no cost/low cost resource...

Business Case

New work by WRAP looks to increase resource efficient and sustainable behaviour through buying practices.Adding specifications and...

UPDATE following Food Futures 2025 Report market engagement webinar

New information is available following the market engagement webinar which took place on 23rd October 2014. 

£400,000 cash boost for Welsh public places

Concert venues, sports centres, colleges and shopping centres are among the organisations set to benefit...

Collection: popular content
Glass collection directory

Glass is an ideal material for recycling as its structure does not deteriorate when reprocessed.

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Review & improve

Organisations that integrate resource efficient and sustainable requirements within their supply chain as part of business as usual...

WRAP Gate Fees Report 2012

Today WRAP publishes its Gate Fees Report 2012. This annual report provides an updated summary of charges for a range of alternative...

Develop strategy

When market intelligence has been gathered and agreement reached with internal stakeholders over which resource efficiency aspects to be...

Environmental assessment of consumer electronic products

A review of high volume consumer electrical products through Lifecycle Assessments, to compare their relative environmental impacts and...

Manage & measure

Contracts awarded should have resource efficient and sustainable requirements embedded into the contractual terms, along with a defined...

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