While some of you might think of their favourite lunch time snack, in the UK the term WRAP refers tp the ‘Waste & Resources Action Programme’, an independent not-for-profit company.
WRAP now presented their vision for a circular economy in the United Kingdom by 2020, using Sankey diagrams:
The material flows for the baseline year 2000 are shown in a first diagram here:
In that year, apparently, 212 Mt of material were disposed of as waste (orange arrow), while only 47 Mt were recycled.
The situation in 2010…
… and the vision for 2020 (from this page):
The goal is to use less input materials, to reduce waste output and to recycle 3/4 of the materials.
