B) Who are Wrap? What do they do?
Wrap is is not a profit company. The main delivery organization working in the UK on the circular economy, helping governments implement their priorities on resource efficiency. They focus on the most resource intensive sectors, where they have deep expertise in food waste reduction, manufactured products, built environments and resource managements.
The work of Wrap as played a major part in the transformation in the way the UK and the rest of the world, now thinks about and values waste and resources. They use the 'circular economy' model as a framework for strategic thinking. They want to give a clear understanding of the flow of resources around an economy, and the economic and environmental benefits of making that economy more 'circular', keeping resources in play for as long as possible.
C) What commercial sectors do they deal with and 'why'?
Hospitality and food service; helping business reduce waste and recycle more.
Construction; making the best use of materials to reduce waste, water and carbon.
Retail; working with the retail sector for greater recourse efficiency.
Local authorities; support and resources to help you deliver high quality recycling services and waste prevention advice.
Agriculture; growing markets for organic resources.
SME; reduce waste and use materials more efficiently to reduce business costs.
Individuals; for loads of top tips on how to reduce waste and recycle more.
D) Do they deal with the idea of circular economy? If 'yes' how do they aim to tally with these ideas?
Yes, they use circular economy model as a framework for strategic thinking. A key element of our strategic approach is a clear understanding of the flow of resources around an economy, and the economic and environmental benefits of making that economy more 'circular' - keeping resources in play for as long as long as possible.
E) What are Wrap's 3x key priority areas and what do they aim to do in these?
PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY - reinventing how we design, produce and sell through product process innovation and enabling collaboration along supply chains.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - rethinking how we buy, use and consumer through consumer campaigns and enabling collaborative changes by business.
WASTE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - re-defining how we re-use and recycle through market and infrastructure development and improved collections systems.
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H) Design for Re-Use, Recycling and Recovery.
- Describe 3 key considerations within design for re-use
1. Ensure that the packaging is designed for and is robust enough for re-use.
2. Check that your business partners will also treat the packaging as re-usable and will return it as appropriate, or that collection arrangements are in place to enable private end-users to return it.
3. Ensure that facilities for cleaning, repair or reconditioning are available if this is necessary before the packaging can be re-used.
- Describe 3 key considerations with 'design for recycling'
1. Minimize the use of substances or materials that might create technical, environmental or health problems in the recycling process or in the disposal of recycling residues.
2. Ensure that you don't make the packaging incompatible with the recycling process if you change your raw materials sourcing or your manufacture, converting and filling processes.
3. Try to design your packaging so that minimum product residues remain when the used packaging is collected for recycling.
- Describe how effective Metal, Glass, Paper and Board and Plastics are and which (in your eyes) of these may achieve the 'most effective' award for recyclability.
METAL packaging, both steel and aluminium, has a high recycled content, and this has no effect on functional performance.
GLASS packaging also has a high recycled content and this has no effect on functional performance. In recent years there has been an issue about what colour of glass to specify because, owing mainly to our wine consumption, the UK imports a lot of green glass, but we need relatively little for our own production. The surplus tends to be recycled into low-value applications, such as aggregate, that may not be as environmentally beneficial as bottle-to-bottle recycling.
PAPER and BOARD packaging for non-food contact use contains high levels of recycled content. However, paper packaging with a high recycled content may have to be heavier than packaging made from virgin fibres. This is because each time fibres are recycled, they lose strength so more fibres are needed to achieve the same level of protection.
PLASTICS packaging has seldom contained recycled content mainly for safety reasons, especially for food contact applications. However, technology has moved on and it is now possible to use some recycled plastics for food packaging.
The award I think, would go to paper and board, as it contains the highest recycled content.
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