At the end of many of the courses we run there is a slide, or a number of slides, that tells delegates about they can go for help on their environmental issues. Many of the websites and information sources we direct people towards are government funded. We've always pointed people towards Envirowise, WRAP and NISP.
From the 1st April 2010 these organisations will be merged into one and called WRAP. The following organisations will no longer be stand alone bodies: Envirowise, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse (CRR), Construction Resources and Waste Platform (CRWP), Action Sustainability (AS), and BREW (Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Centre) for Local Authorities but will be merged into one – Waste & Resources Action Programme(WRAP).
WRAP is now the single point of contact for businesses and organisations looking for support and guidance on improving their resource efficiency.
The Envirowise helpline and website will continue to operate until June 2010, but the WRAP website (www.wrap.org.uk) now offers the same access to information on material resource efficiency. Advice and support is also available through the WRAP resource efficiency helpline on 0808 100 2040.
I guess this makes sense in many ways and now our final information slide will be much shorter but I will miss the Envirowise website which I have used endlessly over the last decade.
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