Come along for a fun, family-friendly day of repair and recycling with ReActon at Acton Gardens Community Centre. On Saturday 17 January from 11am-2 pm, we will have lots of reuse, repair and recycling activities, including learning to mend clothes and repairing small electricals (fully booked). Book slots here for activities:
New year symbolises a fresh start to start new habits and shake off bad habits. We have just got through Christmas that creates the most waste of all the months of the year. It’s the time of year when many of us set good intentions for the year ahead, so what better time to make some resolutions around reducing waste and increasing recycling?
ReActon January Event
Come along on 17 January between 11am-2 pm to be inspired at our ReActon repair, reuse and recycling event at Acton Gardens Community Centre by our sustainable new year resolutions to reduce our waste.
Time: 11-2pm
Date: Saturday 17 January
Indoor location: Acton Gardens Community Centre, Bollo Bridge Lane W3 8UU
On the day we will have lots of activities to inspire you.
- Book for small electricals repair with the Restart Project: FULLY BOOKED
- Learn to repair your clothes Register here
- Upcycle clothes into t-shirt yarn and jeans into denim draught excluders
- Book swap
- Donate for reuse and recycling your:
- Clothes
- Clothes hangers
- Small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- Terracycle recycling
Find out more about ReActon Hub and events which is run by Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority.
Reducing waste in 2026
Make a resolution to reduce reuse and recycle more to make a big difference in 2026. Here are some ideas on how to reduce the waste we create:
- swap to reusable items and ditch single use: Easy swaps are taking a reusable water bottle, travel cup, spork/cutlery set, reusable containers and bags to name but a few. Set up a bag with these in, so its easy to grab as you leave the house. By choosing to reuse, you’ll be helping to protect our oceans, saving money, supporting local businesses and reducing clutter all at the same time. Get inspired by City to Sea reusable switches.
- recycle better by rinsing containers, crushing bottles, avoiding contaminants going into the recycling blue wheelie bin, like soft plastic, single use hot drink cups. Recycling saves 18 million tonnes of CO₂ a year, and there are lots more great reasons to recycle. For more information on what goes in your Ealing Recycling bin go to Recycling in Ealing and why recycling contamination is an issue see Tips to reduce recycling contamination from Recycle Now.
- think circular by reusing, repairing and passing on items, like electronics, clothes. By finding or buying second hand you are keeping things for longer and stopping them going to waste. Let’s move to a circular economy and replace the current wasteful Linier system and all its issues, as explained in The Story of Stuff.
Book your place for small electricals repair
The Restart Project will be offering free small electrical repair. Booking is essential to guarantee an appointment: book here. Appointments slots for booking will be released soon and will be available to Ealing Residents.
The Restart Project aims to tackle the climate emergency by making electronics work for people, for the planet, and for longer.
If you have skills in electrical repair and want to help consider volunteering to Join Ealing’s Electrical Repair Volunteer Team
We live in a throwaway linear economy. It can be difficult to find options for repair locally, and electronics can be needlessly hard to fix. As a result we’re losing repair skills in our communities, throwing more away, and buying more new. It’s building a mountain of e-waste while using ever more of our planet’s limited resources.
So if you have an electronic device that isn’t working or is not functioning as it once was book an appointment, book here.
Small Electricals for repair
The Electrical Repairers can help with these items (electrical only). Book here
- Small Household Electrical Appliances that you can carry including kettle, toaster, blender, alarm clock, lamp, small portable vacuum cleaners or hairdryer
- IT and other Home Equipment like games console controls, remote controls, keyboard, laptop, speaker or radio
Please note the fixers will NOT repair:
- Phones/tablets as they don’t have the specialist equipment needed. Plus there are many great repair businesses already doing this, so take a look at these recommended repairers
- Laptop screens if no replacement has been brought to the event
- Large battery packs, for example e-bikes, scooters, hoverboards – they hold a large fire risk.
- Microwaves as they are extremely high voltage and potentially have carcinogenic insulation (beryllium) inside.
- Power tools or high-wattage electricals.
For more repair options, look at https://londonrepairs.org/ for a local repair company that can help you. They are also looking for recommendations, so please add any companies you have had success with repair.
Learn to repair your clothes
Ealing Repair cafe will be there to teach you how to mend your clothes.
They have mending equipment and sewing machines to get your started. They also have scrap fabric for patches and mends.
So bring along 1 or 2 items and they can guide you through mending your clothes. Or come along for inspiration and learn a few repair techniques. Booking not necessary but you can reserve your place
Ealing Repair café will also have upcycling projects you can learn, such as showing how you can make yarn out of t-shirts. All the family can make your own bracelet or keychain out of t-shirt yarn. Or see a demonstration on how you can make a denim draught excluders out of a pair of jeans and Upcycle t-shirt in draw string bag.
Book swap
Take away or drop off books for our ReActon book swap. It’s a simple and money saving way to get a good read for the new year. Either bring along any books that you no longer want and take away some inspiring books or do both. We want more books kept in circulation and being read.
Bring clothes, small electricals and other teracycle items
Bring along unwanted clothes, small electricals and Terracycle recycling along on Saturday 17 January.
Recycle Clothes
Drop off your unloved and unwanted clothes as well as school uniform at the event. It will be passed onto West London Waste Authorities partners for reuse and recycling.
If you can’t make it along on the day, Traid offers a free home collections of unwanted textiles as well as small electrical items 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. Book a free home collection – Traid
Recycle Small Electricals
Bring along your unloved small electrics for recycling. If the item can fit into a standard bag for life bring it along. In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year, instead of reusing or recycling them.
Recycle with Terracycle
Drop off these TerraCycle recycling items below:
- Pringles® Tube Free Collection: For Pringle Tubes with the metal bases only. No other brands or tube are acceptable.
- Pladis Biscuits and Snacks Recycling: All brands of plastic biscuit wrappers, all brands of plastic cake wrappers and all brands of plastic cracker wrappers. No paper or foil wrappers.
- Taylors Coffee and Yorkshire Tea Free Recycling: All brands of coffee bean pouches, individual coffee bag sachets, ground coffee pouches, bulk bags of tea bags, loose leaf tea packs. Not accepted are coffee capsules, coffee grounds, cardboard packaging, tea bags or individual tea bag sachets.
If you are not able attend, you can also drop these items off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre. Find out more on Ealing Council TerraCycle recycling partnership.
Reduce our waste in 2026
Come along to the ReActon repair, reuse and recycling event on Saturday 17 January, from 11am-2 pm, held At Acton Gardens Community Centre. Let’s make 2026, a money saving, waste free, earth-friendly one.
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