Schemes & Help

Access information on waste reduction schemes and local help available in your area, from community composting initiatives to recycling programmes and disposal support.

All About Bike Recycling
Using a bicycle is an environmentally friendly way to get around in itself and cycling is the transport choice of many eco-conscious people. Green cycling en...
Avoiding Waste: Selling Unwanted Items Online
One way to keep unwanted items out of landfill and to make a bit of money is to sell them on. Selling online is the easiest way to reach the largest amount o...
Borrow Instead of Buying: Books, Bags and More
One way to make sure items get used as many times as possible is to borrow things that you need or want instead of buying them. Loaning something instead of...
Did You Know? Unusual Items You Can Reuse
Many people are aware of the most common household items to re-use, such as food leftovers and plastic bags. However, with a little imagination you’ll usua...
Eco Friendly Ways to Re-use Your Old Printer and Toner Cartridges
Around 44 million laser jet printer cartridges are sold in Europe each year and a staggering 73% of them are only used once. The stats for laser jet printers...
House Clearances: How Do They Work and Where do Things Go to?
House clearance is when a dedicated house clearance company clear a property completely. This may be because someone is moving into a residential home, follo...
Squatting: Living for Free in an Abandoned Building
Squatting is when people live for free in an abandoned or unused building. Some experts estimate that there could be as many as a billion squatters in the wo...
Staying Green: Great Ways to Reuse Your Junk Mail
Junk mail is the bane of a lot of people’s lives. An annoyance at best, it means that we have waste pushed through our letterbox that we then have to dispo...
Waste Exchange Schemes Explained
Something that is waste to one household or business will be useful to someone else. But how would you find someone who might be interested in your waste? Th...
Why Re-use Our Waste?
Re-using waste means finding a way to get the most use out of an item, even if we no longer want or need it, or after its original use has been fulfilled. Re...