Come along on Saturday 27 September for the ReActon Recycle and Reuse event in Stirling Road and swap from 11am until 2 pm. For Ealing Climate week and Recycle week, our event will help residents around Acton reuse and recycle more.
On the day we will have:
- School uniform free shop and swap with unbranded and logo primary and high school uniform
- Free clothes repair sewing kits from Ealing Repair Café (limited stocks)
- Bring your old Halloween costumes – stay tuned for our upcoming Autumn swap shop.
- Free household paint for DIY projects
- Drop off for recycling and reuse your:
- Donate clothes
- Donate clothes hangers
- Small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- Terracycle recycling
- Pick up a free food waste bin (limited stocks)
- Recycling fun & facts – learn what’s in your bin, and why it matters for Recycle week!
ReActon Reuse and Recycle Event
Time: 11 am-2 pm
Date: Saturday 27 September
Where: ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ
Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority run these events.
School Uniform Free Shop and Swap
With children growing up, they are regularly getting too small for their school uniform and needing the next size up. The School Uniform free shop and swap is here to help. Plus any donate clothes hangers you no longer want. Come along to the ReActon Reuse and Recycle event in Acton and pick up some school uniform in the next sizes up and drop off any school uniform that has got too small. We want school uniforms that are washed, clean and in good condition. However, it is not essential that you bring items, you are welcome to take up to 4 items for free for each child from the swap.
Our last Ealing School Uniform Swap on 16 August at ReActon:
Over 150 school uniform items were put back in use. This helped over 50 families who visited the swap. The swap saved over 360kg of carbon and 60,000l of water. To make these numbers easier to imagine, that’s the equivalent of driving a car 871 miles. It’s the amount of water that 67 people will drink in a year!*
The School Uniform Free shop and swap will be open from 11-2 pm. You can choose up to 4 essential school items to take home for free per child. This is to make sure there’s enough available for everyone to take some uniform.
If you have unwanted, laundered hand-me-down school uniform and clothes hangers, you can also drop them off on the day.
This keeps school uniform from going to waste by wearing it for longer and helps families save money. It is also about the community coming together to support each other. Your donations that make these events such a success. Many families will be helped by this generosity.
For full details of the project, including the school uniform drop off locations and other dates go to School Unform free shop and swap.
Free Clothes Repair Sewing kit
Ealing Repair café, as part of Ealing Climate week will be giving away a limited number of free clothes’ repair sewing kits as part of the school uniform swap. The repair kits contain sewing equipment that make it easy for you to repair clothes, and patching and darning instructions. Also the Ealing Repair cafe website is full of advice and inspiration including How to extend the life of school uniform How to Extend the Life of School Uniforms – Ealing Repair Cafe.
Halloween Costumes
For the next ReActon Reuse and Recycle event in October, we will be having a Halloween costume swap. So we are looking for donations of clean, wearable Halloween costumes and accessories. Pop along on the day and drop off any costumes you have.
With 2 in 5 Halloween costumes only being worn once before they’re thrown away, according to Hubbub. Plus a lot of them being made from plastic, the cost of looking spooky is scarily on the rise! Every year almost 7 million Halloween costumes are thrown away this equals to around 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste.
For more inspiration for a low waste Halloween of our Halloween waste busting ideas – ActforEaling Climate Action Hub
Community Paint pick up
Did you know that each year an estimated 50 million litres of paint goes to waste in the UK? This leftover paint is either thrown away or stored in homes or garages despite over 50% of it still being usable. So come along to ReActon and take some free household paint donated locally.
For any paint you don’t want take to Greenford Road reuse and recycling centre. Book a slot and drop the paint off and as part of the Community RePaint project. Their mission is to make use of this wasted paint by offering a solution for leftover paint and making it available for reuse.
Donate your clothes, small electricals and other items
As its Recycle Week, we want to help you recycle items. Bring along unwanted clothes, small electricals and teracycle recycling.
Clothes
Drop off your unloved and unwanted clothes as well as school uniform at the Reuse and Recycle day from 11 noon until 2 pm. West London Waste Authority will pass them onto their recycling partners including Traid.
Did you know that in the UK, around 49% of all unwanted textiles gets thrown in the rubbish bin each year? That’s around 35 items, per person, per year. The good news is that there are lots of simple ways to keep clothing and textiles in use, and out of the bin.
Our donated clothes goes to Traid’s site in Wembley. Traid’s expert team then sort through our garments by hand, which are then categorised by type, style and season, before going on to be sold in one of their 12 London shops. This gives their customers the best second-hand shopping experience, which in turn helps us raise as much money as possible for our projects which support the people who make our clothes. Where items are damaged or otherwise not in resaleable condition, we work with designers and upcyclers, as well as textile recyclers to repurpose these. This includes Ealing Repair Café which gets items to repurpose from Traid, such as making t-shirt yarn and bags.
If you can’t make it along on the day, Traid also offer a free home collections of unwanted textiles as well as small electrical waste at a time convenient for you. If have at least one bag of textiles for collection, any small electrical waste, (small meaning it fits in a bag for life or shopping bag) can be collected at the same time.
Small Electricals
Bring along your unloved small electrics for recycling and a repair training local project. In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year, instead of reusing or recycling them. That creates e-waste which poses a major threat to the environment, wildlife and to human health. The UK ranks second to Norway in the most e-waste produced a 2022 study has found.
Did you know that crushed batteries cause hundreds of fires every year in UK recycling centres, as well as bin and recycling lorries? So it’s really important that we do small electrical and battery recycling by disposing and recycling our batteries responsibly. This year has been incidents of fires in Ealing waste trucks and waste sorting centres around the Ealing.
So bring along to donate your small electricals between 11 am and 2 pm to ReActon Reuse and Recycle event.
Recycle with Terracycle
Drop off these TerraCycle recycling items below:
- The Pringles® Tube Free Collection Programme – for Pringle Tubes with the metal bases only. No other brands or tube are acceptable.
- The pladis Biscuits and Snacks Free Recycling Programme – all brands of plastic biscuit wrappers, all brands of plastic cake wrappers and all brands of plastic cracker wrappers. No paper or foil wrappers.
- The Taylors Coffee and Yorkshire Tea Free Recycling Programme – all brands of coffee bean pouches, individual coffee bag sachets, ground coffee pouches, bulk bags of tea bags, loose leaf tea packs.
- No accepted is recycle coffee capsules, coffee grounds, cardboard packaging, tea bags or individual tea bag sachets
If you are unable to make it on the day, you can also drop it off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre. Book a slot, ensure you have sorted and then please put the correct items into the labelled bins. These items are recycled by cleaning, shredding and then turned into plastic pellets to create new recycled plastic products.
Pick up a free food waste bin
Come along between 11 am – 2 pm to pick up a food waste bin and get advice on food waste, recycling and waste in Ealing.
Recycling more makes a difference. In Ealing, your food waste is collected from the doorstep weekly. It is then taken to a special processing plant where it is used to generate electricity to power homes and the local community. It also produces a fertiliser which can be used in farming.
Food waste is collected weekly on your scheduled collection day. This is also being rolled out to all households across Ealing to include flats and apartments.
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