About our Retail & Wholesale Recycling Guide

This guide is for the person responsible for managing waste at your retail or wholesale workplace or site. If you’re a large organisation with multiple sites, such as a retail chain, you may have a dedicated Waste Manager. For smaller retail and wholesale businesses, this may be the responsibility of the business owner or manager.

This guide only deals with non-hazardous municipal waste – the sorts of waste materials also produced in the home. We won’t be covering how to manage hazardous or other specialist waste your business may produce.

Good to know:

There’s plenty of information and guidance out there for the retail and wholesale sector to help you manage your waste;

- Material Focus has information on electricals recycling.

- WRAP has produced guidance on retailer guidance take back.

- Green Street has produced a Planet Friendly Guide that details 30 practical actions you can take to reduce your environmental impact.

- WRAP’s Guardians of Grub website has guidance, tools and resources to support food businesses to save money by reducing food waste.

- WRAP’s quick-start Action List helps businesses reduce food waste.

- Read our Retailer clothing take back guide designed specifically for clothing retailers advising how to set up a take back scheme for unwanted clothing as part of WRAP’s Textiles 2030 work.

- Review guidance on disposing of food waste.