- ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
- On your marks, get set, Sparks! Avon Wildlife Trust opens first pop-up shop at creative arts and sustainability hub, avonwildlifetrust.org.uk (May 15, 2023)
- Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way, The Daily Alternative (Mar 14, 2023)
Events
- Sep 4 - 8, 2023 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk
- Mar 11 - 17, 2024 (Mon - Sun) — The Big Plastic Count
Networks
- 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
Video
Maps
Map of Potential, Existing and Prevented Incinerators, United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
Other resources
- 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
- 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