ReActon opens two days a week in Acton from May 2026 for everyone to access reuse & recycling activities onsite, including getting free books, school uniforms, and household paint. You can also drop off clothes, school uniform, books and small electrical items during opening hours. Come along and get reusing and recycling.
ReActon Opening hours in May
Our location is ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ Google maps. The opening times and days for May are:
- Tuesday 5 May, 11 am -2 pm
- Friday 8 May, 12 noon – 3 pm
- Monday 11 May, 11 am – 2 pm
- Friday 15 May, 12 noon – 3 pm
- Saturday 16 May: Compost give away and reuse day. Get free compost soil improver made from garden waste collected from West London. More details coming soon.
- Monday 18 May, 11 am – 2 pm
- Friday 22 May, 12 noon – 3 pm
- Tuesday 26 May, 11 am – 2 pm
ReActon is a hub for the circular economy, providing a space for reuse and repair. ReActon is about making the most of what we already have. We are opening two days a week so that people can get more access to the activities.
During opening times, you can take for free:
- books
- school uniform – high school & primary. Full details of the project Ealing free school uniform
- household paint for DIY projects
You can also donate for reuse and repair your:
- clothes & School uniform
- clothes hangers
- books: childrens and adults
- small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- terracycle recycling
We also run regular events that have a variety of activities such as clothes, bike and electrical repair, and other circular economy activities. Our next event is is on Saturday 16 May for a Free compost giveaway.
Find out more about ReActon Hub and events. Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority run these events.
School Uniform Free Shop and Swap
Our school uniform project collects donations of primary and high school uniform across the Ealing borough. We make this uniform available for free to families around the borough at hubs and pop-up events.
At ReActon hub we have a wide selection of branded and unbranded items from primary and high schools at ReActon for you to take for free. You can take up to 4 items for each child for free. So, let’s get reusing the clothes we already have.
As well as ReActon, we have regular pop up events, a hub at Greenford library. See the School uniform project for more information.
Support our project by donating school uniform and clothes hangers that you no longer need or want. If you can’t make the event, please drop it off 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.
Our Ealing School Uniform Swap since August 2025 (when we started collecting) to January 2026 has:
- helped 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.
This project helps families save money and by wearing our clothes for longer so we can reduce our waste. For full details see Ealing school uniform swap.
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 despite over 50% of it still being usable.
Take 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 at our free book stall. 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 to keep more books in circulation, being read rather than going to waste.
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, including school uniform at the event. The uniform will be part of our project and the other clothes 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. 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. Let’s 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. Find out more at Ealing Terracycle Partnership
Get inspiration to reuse and repair and reduce our waste in 2026
Come along to the ReActon at ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ in our opening hours above.
Share with your friends and family to get reusing and recycling more in Acton and Ealing. Share from our ActForEaling Facebook page and Ealing Recycling Facebook page and Ealing Recycling Instagram
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