ActForEaling Partners involved in Re-use, recycling and waste reduction are listed below and further details of their organisation follows after the list:
- Reduce and Recycle Hub: https://ecoactionwestlondon.org/the-reduce-and-recycle-hub
- Ealing Repair Cafe: https://ealingrepaircafe.org/
- Freegle: https://www.ilovefreegle.org/explore/Ealing-Freegle
- Community RePaint: https://communityrepaint.org.uk/
- Re-Store: https://www.restorew3.com/
Reduce and Recycle Hub at Acton Market: Action West London set up the Reduce and Recycle hub at Acton Market with lottery funding. At the hub invited organisations encourage Acton residents to think about what they consume, and start using and wearing items for longer, reduce how much they waste, reuse items more and when they no longer need them, recycle them. The Reduce and Recycle hub usually runs on the first Saturday of the month alongside Acton Saturday MarketW3 on the Mount in Acton, Outside of Morrisons. The issue with waste is both local and global with:
- Plastic pollution creating massive islands in the sea and causing damage to wildlife and nature.
- Electronic waste is a huge issue and the UK ranking second to Norway in countries that produce the most e-waste.
- Fashion and clothes – the fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global emissions contributing to climate change, with UK shoppers buying more clothes than any other country in Europe. So the more clothes we repair and use for longer the less we need to buy.
Find out more here: https://marketw3.co.uk/the-reduce-and-recycle-hub
Ealing Repair Cafe teaches and encourages the mending of clothes and textiles. We want to help create a circular economy for clothes and a move away from fast disposable fashion. We run monthly gatherings around Ealing, giving suggestions and showing samples of repairs done by our community.
At sessions we help by providing sewing equipment, threads, fabric for patches and offering advice on how to mend by sewing, embroidery, visible mending, patching, boro and sashiko stitching.
Visit us: https://ealingrepaircafe.org/ and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ealingrepaircafe/
Ealing Freegle launched in 2010 by local resident Suzanne Fernandes voluntarily (owner) and works with a team of volunteers from Freegle to ensure everything runs smoothly. Ealing Freegle is an online platform offering significant social, economic, and environmental benefits specifically within the Ealing community.
Before you part ways with your old belongings or unwanted gifts, consider this: someone, somewhere might still find them useful. If you reside in the London Borough of Ealing, why not join us and offer your items to fellow members online? It’s a much more eco-friendly alternative than sending them to landfill sites. Items shared on the Ealing Freegle platform must be legal, suitable for all age groups, and offered for free.
Joining up is simple, and navigating the platform is user-friendly. Freegle helps divert usable goods from ending up in landfills, thus contributing to environmental conservation efforts.
After joining members can post a message with image, offering an item for free. Interested individuals can respond to the post. The donor selects a recipient and arranges for item to be collected. Additionally, members can make listings for available items or make requests for specific items they need.
For more info, please have a look at: https://www.ilovefreegle.org/explore/Ealing-Freegle
Community RePaint is a UK wide paint reuse network, sponsored by Dulux, that aims to collect the leftover paint and redistribute it to benefit individuals, families, communities and charities in need at an affordable cost across the UK. The network is made up of over 65 schemes and in 2019 redistributed over 365,988 litres of paint.
The network hosts a scheme at the Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre, managed by Ealing Council. The scheme has been operating at the recycling centre since 1993, and over the past ten years has saved 16,632 litres of paint from going to waste in the borough – this equates to 44,906kg equivalent of CO2 saved.
For more information, click here to visit their website. You can also connect with them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Re’Store is a creative reuse hub that aims to reduce textile and household waste.
To encourage reuse in our local community we host creative mending and upcycling workshops, organise vintage and resale pop-ups, and provide visible mending and upcycling services. For more information visit click here. You can also connect with them through their Instagram and Facebook pages.