WRAP Waste & Resource Action Programme (JB) G#1043 N#1060

WRAP Waste & Resource Action Programme
About:

• Funded by government from Landfill Tax and previously by the Regional Governments,
• Was part of the BREW crew
• Promote the use of recycled content construction products
• Developing the recycling manufacturers and recycling potential in industry
• Encouraged Architects to specify recycled
• Combined work between BRE and WRAP: QuickWins: EP and % recyclate and % cost savings
• Recycling at the expense of Reclaim and Reuse, shrinking the potential of the Architectural Salvage sector.
• With government subsidy and powerful promotion and encouragement programme
• Their success is judged by the tonnes diverted from landfill.
• They have encouraged manufacturers to mix the most bizarre materials in order to help remove problematic materials; making then difficult to separate at the end of life.
• Ran SWMP workshops combined Envirowise, EA, WRAP, BRE, NGS GreenSpec, but failed to address resource efficiency adequately, slipping through the gaps.
• Recycling by binding natural recyclate with synthetic binders does not move us forward in the way Cradle to Cradle discourages mixing natural and technical cycles.
• Recycling promoted and financed at this level will do nothing to encourage redesign of products to be seperatable at the end of life to be reusable rather than recycling.
• Developed some publications on reducing waste by design, without which we continue to generate waste.
• Few designers have engaged with or are willing to admit they generate the waste by design decisions.
• Recently beginning to engage with LCA, so the true impact of recycling will become known and may even be dicouraged.
• Now WRAP heads up the whole of the resource efficiency activity including: Envirowise (now Archived), NISP, WRAP activity, despite NISP being the most productive.
• No longer funded to address the UK Construction Industry (2014)

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2008 – 6th August 2013 – 12th March 2016