Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle page for a topic overview.
Resources
- 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
Networks
- Furniture Re-use Network
- Repair Café UK, community of local groups in the UK organising their own Repair Café meetings, on facebook
- United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
Video
News and comment
2020
Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing. [1] Feb 27
2019
The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money? [2]Apr 24 ...Oxfordshire
'Right to repair' gathers force. [3] Jan 9 ...Climate news 2019
Going plastic-free: The rise of zero-waste shops. [4] Jan 5 ...Wales news
2018
ShareFest brings people together to share, repair, swap and make. [5] Dec 7 ...Totnes
2017
Make supermarkets and drinks firms pay for plastic recycling, say MPs, Dec 22 [6]
Every town needs a remakery, Mar 15 [7] ...Edinburgh
Wales recycling efforts shine on the world stage, Mar 13 [8]
How Farnham UK’s Repair Café Takes a Bite Out of Waste, Feb 23 [9] ...Surrey
2016
UK consumes far less than a decade ago, according to official government figures. Feb 29 [10]
2015
Repair and Re-use Resources, September 10 [11]
Where to Learn Really Re-Useful Skills, September 8 [12]
The Journey of Setting up a Reuse and Repair Centre – a solution for a circular economy, January 16 [13]
2014
The rise of mending: how Britain learned to repair clothes again, May 19 [14]
Events
2015
September 7 - 13 Zero Waste Week
www.zerowasteweek.co.uk
May 3 - 9 International Compost Awareness Week
homecomposting.org.uk
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
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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 organisations. W