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Waste and Resources Action Programme

Answer

The Government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) sets itself targets—which are agreed with its funders, DEFRA and the devolved Governments—and these are written into each of its business plans. WRAP's fourth business plan was published earlier this year, and sets out its targets for the three-year period from April 2008 to March 2011.The extent of WRAP's delivery against its targets is set out annually in reports which are published by WRAP, and are publicly available on its website. The next such report will be published in October, and will set out how WRAP has performed against the targets contained in its third business plan, which covered the period April 2006 to March 2008.Prior to the publication of that report, it is possible, on the basis of WRAP's annual review for 2006-07, to report that WRAP has made it possible for the recycling industry to process an extra 5.8 million tonnes of materials per year. This consists of 4.17 million tonnes of aggregate; enough to build 83,000 new homes, 507,000 tonnes of wood, constituting 42 per cent. of the UK's domestic capacity, 495,000 tonnes of paper, 349,000 tonnes of compost, 137,000 tonnes of glass and 130,000 tonnes of plastic, enough to make 2.8 billion milk bottles.The benefits of WRAP's work in terms of the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) are also significant. Since WRAP started work in 2001 it is estimated that the combined impact of its activities has saved over 1 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases—the same as taking 316,000 cars off the road. Over the lifetime of the projects that WRAP has directly supported, over 12 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases will be saved.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

222744; 480 c745W;480 c739W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

WRAP

Link

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