Recycling bins in Aberystwyth, Wales
Photo credit: Calum Hutchinson
Action Ideas[]
- Community Recycling schemes
- Community Wood Recycling Projects
- Nappy laundering service
- Community compost schemes
- Furniture recycling
- Scrapstores
- Second-hand clothing, etc. stores
- Computer recycling
- Community paper collections
- Waste exchange schemes
- Repair services
- Promoting products that are actually repairable in the first place (and not engineered to be disposable). A wiki or magazine could provide info on the most repairable products.
- Give or take days
- Give or take stalls at Green fairs
- Freegle, Freecycling and Better Use - see International Links
- Community art from recycled materials
- Community vegetable gardens
- (England): Report excessive packaging to Trading Standards
- Precycling, Waste minimisation W
- Bring and Fix
Why it matters
(article needed)
Campaigns[]
Petitions[]
- Say No To Phonebooks, Deadline to sign up by: 29 March 2010
Consultations[]
- ‘Recycle on the Go’ consultation, ends November 2 2007. More information about the consultation, including the consultation paper, via Defra website [1]
- Consultation on the Review of England's Waste Strategy, Launched, February 14 2006, deadline for comments is May 9 2006. More information via Defra website
Related Topics[]
- Environment quality
- Green Purchasing
- Green New Year resolutions
- Growing and gardening
- Recycle at Christmas - personal options
- Recycling and composting rates for areas of England
- War on Waste
- Free stuff
Wanted pages and external links
- Campaign for Real Recycling
- ReIY Reuse It Yourself is a UK-wide network of building material reuse centres.
- GoodNewsForPolarBears.org, give and get free stuff in your local community
- Project Freesheet web based campaign to highlight issues and concerns raised by the ever increasing amount of free literature now being handed out on the streets of our cities around the world.
- Directory has advice on where to recycle wide range of materials - also reduce, reuse, repair: commercial, voluntary, individuals
- Community Recycling Network
- National Community Wood Recycling Project
- Furniture reuse network
- Waste Watch
- Waste Online Extensive information library on waste, managed by Waste Watch. Site includes extensive links listing.
- recycle-more.co.uk
- GreenMetropolis.com
- Green Works
- Recycle now
- Office Furniture Recycling
- www.donateapc.org.uk
- Re-cyle.org 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.
- Recycling and waste Information from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Women's Environmental Network Campaigning on environment and health issues from a female perspective
- Mailing Preference Service
- Community Waste Information Centre
- Freecycle UK site
- espares.co.uk
- RECOUP Plastics recycling
- Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau
- www.donateapc.org.uk
Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle 
Portal - news - images - personal options
Portal - news - images - personal options
- UK - news - resources / USA - New Zealand
References