As part of its brand new three-year Business Plan WRAP has announced a set of demanding goals.
Within three years it is WRAP’s intention to deliver and develop schemes which will:
• Achieve £1.1 billion of commercial benefits.
• The amount of CO2 emissions reduced with 5 million tonnes.
• Realise that 8 million tonnes less garbage will be sent to landfill.
Supporting these three aims, WRAP has outlined four principal priority areas for delivery: collection types, packaging and food waste, and the quality of goods being received for recycling and being recycled.
Since 2000 when WRAP started operating, it announced that in Britain there is today an additional capacity of 5.8 million tonnes of recycling processing; the recycling industry has experienced new investments worth £182 million, while the UK recycling sector’s annual turnover has increased with more than 100 percent to £1.3 billion.
The Waste & Resources Action Programme added it has realised steady progress in its main priority environment of cutting back food waste, achieving the interim goal of decreasing, by March 2008, the food waste amount by 100,000 tonnes.
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