You can use these links to find out more about waste and other environmental issues in Scotland and the rest of the UK. A wide range of organisations can provide useful information and services to help you Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
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Reuse
ActionAid Recycling - www.actionaidrecycling.org.uk
ActionAid Recycling collect empty printer, photocopier and fax cartridges, and unwanted mobile phones, and donate the profits to the charity ActionAid, who work with over 9 million of the world`s poorest people.
Banana Green - www.bananagreen.com
Banana Green offer a mobile phone recycling service where you can sell your phone via a freepost envelope and get the cash sent back to you. Banana Green the arrange for the phone to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way or reconditioned for reuse.
Bits and Bobs Scrapstore - www.bitsandbobsscrapstore.org.uk
Bits and Bobs is a social enterprise that aims to create employment for people with disabilities in a recycling business and related environmentally friendly ventures. Bits and Bobs collects safe, clean waste materials such as paper, cork, fabric, paint and sticky back plastic from a wide variety of businesses across Edinburgh. These are then sorted and displayed to be picked up cheaply by our members at the scrapstore.
Bonnie-Babies - www.bonnie-babies.com
Bonnie-Babies, based in Dundee, provides nappy and baby products and helps newcomers to the world of reusable nappies to navigate their way through the range of nappies and related products available. Following testing at home, only nappies that Bonnie-Babies are happy to recommend appear on this site.
Collect4Uni - www.collect4Uni.co.uk
Collect4Uni is a free printer cartridge recycling scheme for universities and further education establishments which pays the student organisations for cartridges that can be remanufactured.
Community Re>Paint - www.communityrepaint.org.uk
Community Re>Paint is a network of paint reuse schemes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, collecting leftover domestic paint from householders and the paint industry for redistribution to organisations and individuals in social need.
eFreeko - www.efreeko.co.uk
eFreeko is a UK-wide website that allows you to post unwanted items that can be reused by others, and to search for other people`s unwanted items that you can reuse. Everything on the site is offered for free, but you can charge for postage and packaging.
Environment & Greener Living Guide - www.direct.gov.uk/greenerliving
The online guide to greener living, from the UK government, is designed to help people living in England who want to find out what they can do in their everyday lives to tackle climate change and other environmental issues. The guide includes actions that can be taken covering the home, shopping, travel, food and drink, waste and recycling, energy and water saving, gardening, as well as being green in the workplace, school and community.
free2collect - www.free2collect.co.uk
The free2collect site allows you to browse for unwanted items that you could reuse, or post your own items for others to take off your hands - and everything is free2collect.
Freecycle (TM) - www.freecycle.org
The Freecycle Network (TM) provides individuals and non-profit organisations with an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items by donating them to others for Reuse.
GreenGonzo - www.greengonzo.com
GreenGonzo is an initiative that aims to reduce waste and promote the reuse of goods and materials. By registering for free, anyone can post adverts offering to give away things they no longer need, but may be of use to others. Anyone who wishes can use the search tool to find out what is being given away by people in their area.
Hire Hub (The) - www.thehirehub.co.uk
The Hire Hub is a community marketplace for hiring almost anything between members. Rather than having to buy the thing you need, you can now hire it from a fellow member. If you`ve got your own things then you can hire them out and earn some money from them.
rag-and-bone - www.rag-and-bone.co.uk
Rag-and-bone offers a way of recycling large or bulky items that have no longer need and are too good to simply throw. It provides an economical and effortless way to recycle unwanted, but still usable or repairable, household items.
Recycle This - www.recyclethis.co.uk
How can I Recycle This? is a website that provides creative ideas for reusing and recycling random stuff. New items are added regularly and you can share your ideas with other users.
redeem - www.redeemplc.com
redeem is the international leader in the recovery, recycling, buying and supplying of used printer cartridges and mobile phones. They specialise in providing substantial revenue streams to charities, NGOs, schools, community groups and commercial organisations.
Reuze - www.reuze.co.uk
Reuze aims to bring together the three parts of the recycling problem. Those with waste to recycle, organisations that reuse that waste and products made from recycled waste.
TheFreeBay.org - www.thefreebay.org
TheFreeBay.org is a portal for users to offer items that they no longer use or need for free to others who visit the site. This means that items that would otherwise gather dust or end up in a landfill are ‘recycled’ and put to use by others.
Waste Aware Business - www.wasteawarebusiness.org.uk
Any business based in Scotland can use the Waste Aware Business website and Business Recycling Directory to access information about local and national recycling and reuse services from a range of service providers.
WEEE Partnership (The) - www.weeep.org
The WEEE Partnership collects disused electrical and electronic equipment for repair, refurbishment or recycling and can arrange collections if you have several items for uplift, eg office IT equipment.
