Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism to Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.

Recycling in England is about to get better

Authors: Chris Spargo, 12.45 mins.

Date: 2025-09-22

Community Climate Action: Upcycling and mending at the Repair Café, Friends of the Earth

Authors: Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland), Jan 5, 2023

• 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.
• 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
• 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

• 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

Maps

Map of Potential, Existing and Prevented Incinerators, United Kingdom Without Incineration Network

The Gift of a Sewing Machine, Easter 2020

Authors: Tools with a Mission

Date: 2020-03-16

TWAM Infomercial

Authors: Tools with a Mission, Apr 21, 2017

See also

• Environment quality UK
• Ethical consumerism UK
• Food UK
• local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages