The Reduce and Recycle Hub is back on Saturday 1st March with a free Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day. Plus all the great other activities to reduce our waste. Activities such as a book swap, collecting clothes and small electricals for recycling and learn to mend your clothes.
This is the Final Reduce and Recycle hub at St Mary’s Church in Acton. Action West London who run the hub have set up a crowd funder to run more events, so please support them. The hub has been running for 2 and half years, helping Acton and Ealing to reduce waste, but sadly their current funding for the hub going has come to an end. They are still hoping to have more events so please keep following Market W3 News for more updates.
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March Reduce and Recycle hub
Pop along on Saturday, 1st March from 11.30 to 3 pm where they will have all our popular activities. Plus a free Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day for families to exchange costumes and fancy dress.
There will be their regular activities, helping you to reduce your waste and recycled. Activities such as book swap, clothes collection, seed swap and Ealing Clothes repair cafe and more.
The hub is held at St Mary’s Church is at the heart of Acton town on The Mount, High Street, Acton, W3 9NW. Come inside and admire its beautiful architecture and join in the hubs activities to help reduce our waste and recycle more.
At the March Reduce and Recycle hub at St Marys Church Acton, you can:
Repair
- Learn to fix your clothes and other textiles with Ealing Repair Cafe
- Learn to make an upcycled Draught excluder and take it home for free
Recycle: From 11.30 am to 2 pm
- Book swap: Drop off or pick up preloved books with Churchfield Community Association
- Clothing, Shoes with Traid
- Small Electricals with Traid
- Biscuit and snack wrappers with Ealing Council Terracycle collection
- Plastic toothbrushes, electrical toothbrush heads with Ealing Council Terracycle collection.
Reduce
- Fancy Dress Costume swap for World Book Day.
- Q & A from 11.30 to 1 pm about your waste and recycling doorstep collection and were else you can recycle with Ealing Council.
- Bring unopened, long life food and snacks to donate to Ealing Food Bank.
Connect to Nature
- Free seeds: Cultivate London will be on site with seeds to take away. They also will share information about their Acton Green composting project and tell you how to get involved https://www.spacehive.com/acton-green-waste-solutions.
So pop along to the Reduce and Recycle hub and join the community of people who are helping Acton reduce, reuse and recycle more. For full details go to March Reduce & Recycle Hub: The Finale.
Reduce and Recycle Hub Achievements
Since October 2022 at the Reduce and Recycle hub, we have:
- Saved 860.21 kg of unwanted clothing.
- Saved 259.2 kg of small electrical items collected, preventing further e-waste.
- Collected 223.1kgs of small electrical items for recycling
- Reduced carbon emissions (CO2) by 7.625 tonnes
- Helped save 1392.33 m³ of Water
- Taught clothes repair, upcycling and t-shirt yarn making
- Resharpened kitchen and garden tools
- Helped rehome over 550 fiction & non fiction books, saving over 9 trees.
See our Reduce and Recycle Hub 2023 review and so far we have achieved.
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