(This article was originally published on the REA’s old Organics Recycling Group’s website in July 2013. That website is no longer being updated.)

In July 2013, WRAP published guidelines and a report on using compostable products and packaging at ‘closed venue’ events.

Working with Compostable Products: Key Lessons and Guidelines for Future Events

This guide highlights key lessons from experience in planning and managing the collection and composting of food and compostable packaging and non-packaging products at the venues for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games venues.  It aims to help the hospitality industry and organisers of UK and international events to understand how to deliver, measure and report more effectively on the management of biodegradable wastes that arise from events.  The guide includes recommendations to promote inclusion of compostables of these types at future events.

Please click here to download.

Working with compostable products and packaging in closed venue events

This report describes the procurement, use and management of compostable packaging and non-packaging products in ‘closed venue’ events and uses the experiences gained from the 2012 London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

Please click here to download.