Each year we generate nearly 300 million tonnes of waste - that’s nearly 5 tonnes for each person (including, perhaps especially, children!) This waste causes environmental damage and costs businesses - and consumers - money.
Things are getting better: we re-cycle about four times as much waste now as we did ten years ago. However there’s still a long way to go.
We produce about 8 million tonnes of food-and-drink waste - 7 million tonnes of which is food. Think of that - 7 million tonnes of food. Even if you didn’t eat it, you could make electricity out of it - and save carbon. A tonne of food waste, converted into electricity, saves the equivalent of a tonne of carbon dioxide.
Swap Shop
Swap Shops are our community Recycle-Reuse events.
Bring any unwanted articles, take away anything you fancy, do one or the other, or both - you don’t need to bring anything to take something. It’s all entirely free (donations to pay for hall hire costs are, of course, welcome)
We welcome reusable bric-a-brac, kitchenware, books, tools, clothes, toys, small furniture items.
Please - No large items or DIY waste, no TVs or PCs etc. DVDs and videos are also unlikely to find a new home.
Our volunteers arrange the hall hire and display items donated on the day. Sometimes we can arrange PAT testing of small electrical items. We clear up at the end of the morning, taking left-overs to charity shops or the recycling centre at Dix Pit.
** Next Swap Shop - 8 February 2025**