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Welcome aboard Bexley!

London Re-use Network is delighted to announce the addition of another London borough to our Hotline collection service. Welcome aboard Bexley! Bexley residents can call the London Re-use Hotline on or visit www.londonreuse.com to book a collection of unwanted items. The re-use service will operate alongside the council’s bulky waste service, mirroring [...]

Re-use Recognised in the Guardian

The London Re-use Network has been featured in the Guardian as part of the paper’s Live Better campaign; which this month focuses on how readers can reduce, re-use and recycle more. Journalist, Leo Benedictus, spent the day with LRN Development Manager Richard Featherstone visiting two flagship projects in West London, the Re-work workshop and the [...]

Routes to Reuse Report published

Commenting on the publication of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) report, “Routes to reuse – Maximising value from reused materials”, Charles Craft, Managing Director of London Re-use Network said: “The LGA’s report gives a welcome boost to the case for properly integrated re-use services of the kind LRN is supporting here in the capital. We [...]

LRN at the Resource Event

London Re-use Network will be taking part in The Resource Event at the Excel Centre from Tuesday 4th- Thursday 7th March. The event brings together key thinkers in the waste and resources sector and will feature speakers from WRAP, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the Carbon Trust and the London Re-use Network. Over the course of [...]

Richard Featherstone- Master of Waste!

Richard Featherstone, Development Manager at London Re-use, has been named as one of the Masters of Waste in Resource magazine’s Hot 100 list. Richard jumped to 29th this year from 96th last year, which he attributes to the work of London Re-use during the years in pushing furniture re-use from fringe to a core activity. [...]

London Re-use featured in Third Sector Magazine

  The London Re-use website (this website!) has been featured in Third Sector Magazine. Once a month, Gemma Quainton, Third Sector’s Online Editor visits a new website and assesses it on ease of navigation, accessibility and content. Gemma concludes that the London Re-use site ‘has a clean, clear and simple design that is easy to [...]

Congratulations Craig Anderson OBE

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  London Re-use Network would like to congratulate Craig Anderson, Chief Executive of the Furniture Re-use Network, on being awarded an OBE in the New Year honours list. Responding to the news Anderson said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled to receive this honour, especially with this being the 25th Anniversary of the FRN. We now have [...]

London Re-use vans deliver Christmas cheer

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  London Re-use Network vans have been helping to spread Christmas cheer by delivering hampers to 38 families across west London. Family Friends, a charity which provides befriending and mentoring services used vans from furniture re-use service, Furnish, to deliver toys, food and household basics. Chief executive of Family Friends, Flora Taylor, said: “For many [...]

Furnish win Green Business Award

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Congratulations to our partners Staying First who have been named ‘Green Business of the Year’ for its furniture and appliance re-use service, Furnish. Furnish collects and delivers unwanted furniture throughout West London. It saves around 1,379 tonnes of domestic and commercial furniture from landfill every year. The organisation scooped the prestigious accolade at the West [...]

Recipro open ReciproCity East London

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Recipro, the innovative construction re-use business have launched their first ReciproCity in London. This is the third site for Recipro following the original ReciproCity Wirral and ReciproCity Cardiff, which opened in December 2011 and July 2012 respectively. ReciproCities are building material re-use centres which provide an alternative to the skip for surplus building materials which [...]