Come along to get free compost soil improver in Acton. Collect the compost from ReActon at Stirling Road on Saturday 16 May 2026 from 11 am -2 pm, Monday 18 May from 11 am to 2 pm and Friday 22 May, 12 noon – 3 pm.
The compost is available from at times above, while stocks last.
- ReActon Hub, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ Acton. From 11 am until 2 pm
The compost soil improver provides plants with key nutrients and helps your garden flourish. Also on the day, there will be our other great reuse and recycling activities. This includes free school uniform, books and household paint.
The free compost soil improver is made from garden waste collected from West London. You can take up to 150 litres of soil improver per household. This is about one wheelbarrow. Compost soil improver available for free while stocks last. You will need to:
- Bring your own bag, container or barrow.
- Bring your own shovel.
Mix the compost soil improver with 3 parts soil for use in the garden. The soil improver is produced by composting green waste from West London. For full details see terms of use on Compost Soil Improver. Compost soil improver is organic matter and provides plants with key nutrients. It offers structural support, helping your garden flourish. Amazing what garden waste can do in the garden. Get tips from Royal Horticulture Society on how to use soil improver.
ReActon Free Compost and Reuse Event
Time: 11 am-2 pm
Date: Saturday 16 May 2026
Monday 18 May from 11 am to 2 pm
Friday 22 May, 12 noon – 3 pm
Where: ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ
Free compost soil improver is available while stocks last.
Find out more about ReActon Hub and events. Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority run these events.
On the opening days, there will be other reuse and recycling activities which include:
- donating garden and other tools to Tools with a mission: They collect garden and household tools and pass them onto projects in the UK and overseas. For more information on what they are currently asking Tools Wanted List. More details on the charity here https://www.twam.uk
- free school uniform – high school & primary. Full details of the project Ealing free school uniform
- free household paint for DIY projects
- book swap
- donate for reuse and repair your:
- clothes
- clothes hangers
- small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- terracycle recycling
Donate garden and other tools to Tools with a Mission
Tools with a mission collects unwanted usable tools, refurbishes them, and sorts them into trade tool kits for livelihood creation. Their mission is to empower people and groups in need, offering them a way through tools to put poverty in the past for good and begin their own sustainable careers. In doing so, we also enrich our local UK communities through volunteering opportunities and waste reduction, contributing significantly to environmental sustainability.
Please donate gardening tools such as forks, spades, hoes, rakes, hand forks and trowels, loppers, secateurs, shears, cultivators, sickles, shovels, axes, bow saws, trimmers and strimmers, ladders/step-ladders, wheelbarrows, pressure washers, and lawnmowers (all types). For full details of all the tools they want go to Tools wanted list.
Through their ‘local to global’ model, we prevent over 200 tonnes of tools from crowding UK landfills annually and engage local communities, offering volunteering opportunities that nurture skills and foster social connections. The impact of our work resonates globally, as we supply refurbished tools to over 500 organisations in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. These tools equip individuals with the skills needed to completely transform their lives and communities.
Enter the Biodiverse Garden Awards
Have you got a front garden, green space, community garden or school green space that are wildlife friendly and support biodiversity? Then enter your green space into the Biodiverse Garden Awards. With prizes to be won, we are inviting new and experienced gardeners (and everyone in-between) to enter this exciting competition which is free to enter and open to all Ealing residents.
School Uniform Free Shop and Swap
Our Ealing School Uniform Swap collects free donations of primary and high school uniform across the Ealing borough. We make this uniform available to families around the borough at hubs and pop-up events.
Get reusing with us by 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. We accept 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.
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 so we can reduce our waste.
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. So come along to ReActon and take some free household paint donated locally and stop this valuable paint going to waste.
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. You can also take paint from the Greenford site in the Repaint section.
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.
Free books
Get or drop off books for our book swap. It’s a simple and money saving way to get a good read without having to buy new. 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.
We are looking for more books to widen our selection, so please bring along any donated books you have.
Clothes, small electricals and other teracycle items accepted
Bring along unwanted clothes, small electricals and Terracycle recycling along on Saturday 16 May 2026. Donating, repairing, and recycling unwanted clothes and electrical items is a great way to reduce waste, prevent it going into landfill, and save resources. Millions of tonnes of textiles and electrical items are discarded annually in the UK, yet many of these can be repurposed or reused.
Clothes
Drop off your unloved and unwanted clothes, as well as school uniform at the event. It will be given to 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. 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 Traid free home collection
Small Electricals
For small electrical items that are broken, and it can fit into a standard bag for life bring it along to ReActon. If the small electricals are in working order, please drop them off at one of our local Charity shops that accept electrical items. In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year. Lets get reusing or recycling them in Ealing, so don’t bin them, pass them on, donate them or recycle them.
Recycle with Terracycle
Terracycle offers free hard to recycle programmes. Please collect and 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 unable to make it on the day, you can also drop these items off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre.
Get inspiration to reuse and reduce our waste in 2026
Come along to the ReActon free compost in Acton on Saturday 16 May, from 11 am-2 pm, held at ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ. Please share this event with friends and families to get reusing and recycling more in Ealing. Share from our Facebook ActForEaling page and Ealing Recycling page and Ealing Recycling Instagram. Find out more about ReActon hub.