A large proportion of what we throw away can be reused. By reusing or repairing items you can help reduce the amount of waste you produce.

There are many ways to reuse items:

• local preschools and crèches often need boxes and other items for children’s activities
• repair broken items instead of buying new ones
• reuse shopping bags as bin liners
• use containers such as butter tubs for storing jigsaws, nails, toys or coloured pencils
• buy a reusable (artificial) Christmas tree

You can even get free help to fix electrical items such as slow or damaged laptops, kettles, and radios at one of our restart parties 

Or you can check out londonrepairs.org to search for a local repairer.

Donate it

Don’t throw away that old sofa or table because someone else might be able to use it. There are a number of non profit organisations that will collect good quality, second hand goods for reuse:

• British Heart Foundation
• TCL ReUse Centre
• Local charities

Other web-based organisations are also available to help you find new homes for your unwanted furniture and other home appliances:

• Freecycle
• Freegle
• Recycle Now
• Globechain