Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK news

• ‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025) — residents of an English village build their own composting site

• 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)
• ‘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)
• Stop ‘wishcycling’ and get wise: how to recycle (almost) everything, The Guardian (Feb 07, 2023)

• Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12% recycled in the UK., The Big Plastic Count (Jul 12, 2022) — The Big Plastic Count has revealed that 88% our household waste is being burnt, buried and dumped overseas.

• If we want a cosmolocal revolution, writes Benjamin Still, we must learn from how soil binds the world together. Jan 23, 2022...thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative

• Repairing and reusing household goods could create thousands of green jobs across the UK, Aug 4, 2021...^[1]
• The repair shop trying to fix throwaway culture, Jul 26, 2021...^[2]Glasgow community action
• Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing...^[3] Feb 27, 2020.
• The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money?..^[4]Apr 24, 2019.
• 'Right to repair' gathers force...^[5] Jan 9, 2019.
• Going plastic-free: The rise of zero-waste shops...^[6] Jan 5, 2019.
• ShareFest brings people together to share, repair, swap and make...^[7] Dec 7, 2018.

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Make supermarkets and drinks firms pay for plastic recycling, say MPs, Dec 22, 2017...^[1]

• Every town needs a remakery, Mar 15, 2017...^[2]
• Wales recycling efforts shine on the world stage, Mar 13, 2017...^[3]
• How Farnham UK's Repair Café Takes a Bite Out of Waste, Feb 23, 2017...^[4]
• UK consumes far less than a decade ago, according to official government figures. Feb 29, 2016...^[5]
• Repair and Re-use Resources, September 10, 2015...^[6]
• Where to Learn Really Re-Useful Skills, September 8, 2015...^[7]
• The Journey of Setting up a Reuse and Repair Centre – a solution for a circular economy, January 16, 2015...^[8]
• The rise of mending: how Britain learned to repair clothes again, May 19, 2014...^[9]

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