- Read, swap, repeat: secondhand book recycling platform launches in the UK, positive.news (Sep 03, 2024)
- Demolishing buildings is bad for the planet – here’s an alternative, theconversation.com (Jul 23, 2024)
- How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money, theguardian.com (May 06, 2024)
Events[edit | edit source]
- Mar 11 - 17, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — The Big Plastic Count, helping citizens and communities be part of the push on government, brands and supermarkets to take bold action to tackle the plastic crisis, thebigplasticcount.com
- Sep 2 - 6, 2024 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk
Networks[edit | edit source]
- Repair Café UK, community of local groups in the UK organising their own Repair Café meetings, on facebook
- United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
- Reuse Network, supports reuse charities across the UK to help them alleviate poverty, reduce waste and tackle climate change.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Video[edit | edit source]
Maps[edit | edit source]
Map of Potential, Existing and Prevented Incinerators, United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- Tools with a Mission, collects tools from around the UK, refurbishes them, packs them into trade kits, and sends them to organisations in Africa. added 15:35, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Recipro, helps community and charity projects looking for building materials
- Reuse It Yourself, information on setting up a building material reuse enterprise
- Reuseful UK, charity that promotes and supports creative reuse
- How to Set Up a Repair Event in Your Community, July 2015 Make Do And Mend
- How to...Organise a Swish! August 2015 Make Do And Mend
See also[edit | edit source]
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- Environment quality UK
- Ethical consumerism UK
- Food UK
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
Wikipedia: Recycling in the United Kingdom
- Freegle, British organisation that aims to increase reuse and reduce landfill by offering an Internet-based service where people can give away and ask for things that would otherwise be thrown away. It is free to use and works in a similar way to the international Freecycle. W
- Freeworld-Recycling, an organisation dedicated to 100% free & local community recycling, salvage and reuse of household items
- Jumble Trail
- Office Furniture Recycling
- Re~Cycle, collect and ship second hand bicycles and parts to Africa. Local partners teach local people the skills of how to repair and maintain them, to improve their lives in a sustainable manner
- Reducing and managing waste, policy information from GOV.UK
- The Restart Project, London-based social enterprise aiming to revive electronics repair in order to reduce waste
- Waste Watch, non-profit, sustainability organisation based in the UK, inspiring people to live more and waste less. Waste Watch aims to improve well-being and the environment on a local and global level, by changing the way we live; such as the ways we produce, buy, use and dispose of things. The organisation primarily works with community groups, businesses, schools and other not-for-profit organizations. W