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Waste not want not!

12/01/2017 by Paul Ducker

Every year we throw away a lot of food, much of it perfectly edible. Perhaps it is just an inevitable part of our pre-prepared, ready bagged, multipacked, buy-one-get-one-free way of shopping. But Tony Cowling thinks not and has a friend who is providing living proof.

Filed Under: Food, News and views, Waste Tagged With: food, food waste, recycle

€3.2m London project to target food waste prevention and recycling alongside healthy eating

06/11/2016 by Paul Ducker

A new London-wide behaviour change initiative could save Londoners £330m, reduce avoidable food waste in the capital and increase awareness of more healthy and sustainable eating.

Filed Under: Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: food, food waste, health, recycle

Sweden paying people to fix things

03/11/2016 by Paul Ducker

To combat its ‘throwaway consumer culture’, Sweden has announced tax breaks on repairs to clothes, bicycles, fridges and washing machines. On bikes and clothes, VAT has been reduced from 25% to 12% and on white goods consumers can claim back income tax due on the person doing the work.

Filed Under: Carbon reduction, Communities, consumption and the local economy, Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: circular economy, recycle, repair, reuse

Recycling won’t solve the waste dilemma, but consumers can

02/11/2016 by Paul Ducker

Speaking to the World Economic Forum (WEC) during a live Facebook webinar, TerraCycle’s chief executive Tom Szaky claimed that the world “can’t recycle [it’s] way out of waste” and instead called on individuals to tweak shopping habits in order to promote durable and used products.

Filed Under: Communities, consumption and the local economy, Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: circular economy, recycle, reuse

Remade in Edinburgh: inspiring reuse and repair

29/10/2016 by Paul Ducker

Sophie Unwin of Remade in Edinburgh has written an article on Scotland’s Common Space web site about how learning to repair and reuse benefits the community. Remade in Edinburgh teaches repair and reuse skills, and sells recycled and upcycled IT equipment and furniture.

Filed Under: Communities, consumption and the local economy, Spotted on the web, Waste Tagged With: circular economy, recycle, reuse, skills, social enterprise, training

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Reading Sustainability Centre

We are an education project linked to Transition Town Reading and Reading Hydro. Our goal is that Reading is recognised as a leader in practical action on sustainability, as well as a great place to live.

We are mostly virtual at the moment, but are working with a variety of partners to support the development of local sustainability experiments as well as ‘pop-up’ exhibitions and events. So please do keep checking back, or sign up for updates below. If you’d like to get more directly involved just drop us a line.

There is more about Reading Sustainability Centre on our Who we are page.

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