Come along for a fun, family-friendly day of reuse and repair event with ReActon at Stirling Road. On Saturday 7 March 2026 from 11 am -2 pm, join in with reusing and repairing as part of London Repair Week.
ReActon focuses on reducing our waste, looking at how we can reuse and repair. Collectively, we have to need to move away from buying more stuff. Together, food, textiles, and manufactured products account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The old approach of ‘take-make-dispose’ is the major cause of inequality, greenhouse gases, and mountains of waste. It’s destroying our planet, polluting our water, and shattering biodiversity. So come along to ReActon and get inspiration.
Activities on the day include:
- free school uniform – high school & primary.
- learn to repair your clothes
- free bike check
- upcycle t-shirts into yarn and bracelets
- free household paint for DIY projects
- book swap
- learn about recycling in the garden: leaf mould, bio-digester and what is a wormery
- seed swapping
- Donate for reuse and repair your:
- Clothes
- Clothes hangers
- Small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- Terracycle recycling
This event is part of London Repair Week, with more events listed here in Join Ealing repair week 2026 and save money . London Recycles launched London’s first ever Repair Week in 2020, with the aim to give people practical skills and encourage greater use of existing repair services. Two in three (64%) people in the UK say they have spent around £277 a year replacing items they think could have been repaired, according to new research published ahead of Repair Week 2026. So lets get repairing what we already have.
ReActon Reuse and Repair Event
Time: 11 am-2 pm
Date: Saturday 7 March 2026
Where: ReActon, Stirling Road, Acton, W3 8DJ
Find out about ReActon Hub and events. Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority organises these events.
School Uniform Free Shop and Swap
With the summer term approaching the children will be moving over to their summer uniform. We have a wide range of branded and unbranded items from primary and high schools around the Ealing borough. You are welcome to take up to 4 items for free for each child from the swap.
We want school uniforms that are washed, clean and in good condition. However, it is not essential that you bring items, you can take up to 4 school uniform items.
Please also donate school uniform and clothes hangers that you no longer want. If you can’t make the event, please drop it off either or both at one of our collection points.
Our Ealing School Uniform Swap so far since August 2025 has:
- 265 families have taken over 800 school uniform items which are back in use. The swap saved over 1980 kg of carbon and 333,600 litres of water. This is because making clothes takes large amounts of energy and water to make. The water saved is equivalent to what 370 people will drink in water for a year!*
- Over 2.5k items of primary and high school uniform donated to our project. Thanks to all who have donated.
The School Uniform Free shop will be open from 11 am -2 pm. This project helps families save money and by wearing our clothes for longer we can reduce waste.
Learn to repair your clothes
Join Ealing Repair cafe who will teach you how to mend your clothes and textiles.
They have equipment and scrap fabric to get your started, so bring along 1 or 2 items and they can guide you through mending your clothes.
Learn how to replace a zip using their piggyback zip technique How to Repair Broken Zips with the Piggyback Technique.
Come along for inspiration and learn some textile repair techniques from Ealing Repair cafe.
Upcycling clothes and textiles
Ealing Repair café will also have upcycling projects you can learn, like showing how you can make yarn out of t-shirts. All ages from the oldest to the youngest in the family can get making their 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.
Free Bike Check
Get your bike checked for free with Colin from CC Cycle Services in Acton.
Your bike will get a full cycle checks, minor adjustments (gears, brakes, tyre inflation), and clear guidance on any further work required.
This is a free service funded by Ealing Council, where Colin will carry out minor repairs on the spot and give advice on how to look after your bike to keep you riding all year round. If you cant get along on the day, see Free Dr Bike checks in Ealing 2026: Get Your Bike checked.
Free household paint for DIY projects
Each year it is estimated that 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.
Come along to ReActon and take free household paint donated locally.
If you have paint you don’t want, take it to Greenford Road reuse and recycling centre. Book a slot to drop the paint off and any other items you want to recycle.
This paint is 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.
Book swap
Take a book for free or leave one for somebody else to enjoy, or do both at our book swap.
We have a great choice of children’s and adult books. It’s a simple and money saving way to get a good read. 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.
Recycling in the garden and greenspaces
Cultivate London will be showing you the value of leaf mould, how we can use our green waste produced by a bio-digester to fertilise the garden. They will also have a wormery to illustrate recycling in action. Plus seeds to swap.
Clothes, small electricals and other teracycle items accepted
Bring along unwanted clothes, small electricals and Terracycle recycling along on Saturday 7 March 2026.
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.
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. You need at least one bag of textiles for collection and any small electrical item (small as in it fits in a bag for life or shopping bag) can be collected at the same time. Book a Traid free home collection
Small Electricals
If you have small electricals that you no longer want but are in working order, please drop them off at one of our local Charity shops that accept electrical items. For those small electrical items that are broken, and can fit into a standard bag for life bring it along to ReActon. In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year, instead of reusing or recycling them, so please try to pass on these electricals.
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 can’t make it on the day, you can also drop these items off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre. Find out more at Ealing TerraCycle scheme.
Get inspired to reuse and repair to reduce our waste in 2026
Share with friends and family and come along to the ReActon Reuse and Repair event on Saturday 7 March 2026, from 11 am-2 pm, held at ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ.