Quick-win strategies identified by WRAP could reduce use of resources by 38 million tonnes per year by 2020

The research: "Securing the Future - The Role of Resource Efficiency" was launched at WRAP’s annual conference on 9th November 2010. It has shown that 13 quick-win resource efficiency measures would reduce the UK’s use of water extracted from rivers, lakes and underground by 6%. That’s the same as more than halving household water use across the UK.

 

Excluding water and fossil fuels, the UK currently uses around 520 million tonnes of raw materials a year directly. The research also looked at 11 materials of concern – including iron ore and steel, wood, plastics, aluminium, gypsum, copper, cobalt, lithium and rare earths - and showed how the same resource efficiency strategies could reduce our use of these materials by 38 million tonnes per year by 2020.