These organisations share or support our ethos. The local businesses help us to Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle.
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Transition Network
This is where we started – a movement of Transition is a movement of communities coming together to re-imagine and rebuild our world.
Soil Association
Leading UK charity campaigning for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use.
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Protecting and connecting wildlife sites across the county and inspiring local communities and young people to care for wildlife where they live.
Reduce
| Lemon and Jinja | Romsey | Refill station for range of products |
| Rice Up Wholefoods | Hanover Buildings Southampton | Refill station for a range of products |
| Eastleigh market stall | Leigh Road | Refill station for a range of products |
| ProjectsStore | 6 Middlebrook Street Winchester SO23 8BQ | Refill station for a range of products. Repurposed and recycled gifts and homewares & organic kitchen. |
| Sunnyfields Farm Shop | Jacobs Gutter Lane Totton | Ecover refill station and farm shop |
| Bay Leaves Larder | 87-91 Hiltingbury Rd Chandlers Ford | Collaborates with Lemon and Jinja Coffee grounds available to collect |
Reuse
| Society of St James | 125 Albert Road South Southampton SO14 3FR | Charity helping homeless people, with bases in Southampton and Portsmouth. Welcomes donations of good quality clothing, footwear, household items such as single bedding sets, duvets and pillows, crockery, saucepans and towels . |
| Jamie’s Computers | Unit 32, Mount Pleasant Industrial Estate, Southampton | Linked to the Society of St James. Accepts computers and peripherals (including printer cartridges) for refurbishment/repair/resale/recycling. |
Repair
| Southampton Repair Cafe | Meets at Freemantle Baptist Church, Testwood Road, SO15 8RL and St Denys Community Center Priory Road, SO17 2JZ – see website for days and times. | Repairs of hand-held items and bicycles. |
| Portsmouth Repair Cafe | Buckland United Reformed Church 174 Kingston Road, Fratton Portsmouth. | Repair of household items and more |
Recycle
| RecycleNow | Useful website that provides advice on where you can recycle various household items and more. | Advice and contacts for recycling |
| Terracycle | Co-ordinates manufacturers’ schemes for recycling their waste. Find drop-off points for all kinds of things. See the example below of all the things that can be collected for the charity Kicks Count. Many other organisations collect some or all of these items (eg many dentists collect used toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and other dental items; Boots Opticians collect disposable contact lenses and packaging). | Recycling |
| Complete The Cycle | GSK has a scheme to recycle used asthma inhalers. Find participating pharmacies here. Many Boots pharmacies (and Day Lewis In Southampton) have drop off boxes. | Used asthma inhalers |
| Haskins Garden Centres | Recycle plant pots and trays and other garden items. | Plant pots, trays etc |
| Plastic bags | Many supermarkets have collection bins for recycling plastic bags. These collections are not limited to carrier bags but can include other plastic bags and films. www.recyclenow.com/what-to-do-with/plastic-film | Plastic bags |
| Recycling for good causes or individual charity sites, such as Oxfam | Many charities have schemes for recycling valuable items such as broken earrings, gold chains, watches, foreign bank notes and electronics such as sat navs, games consoles etc. | Jewellery, mobile phones, gadgets, valuables |
| Local authority recycling schemes | New Forest, Test Valley, Basingstoke & Deane, Rushmoor, Winchester, East Hampshire, Havant, Hart, Eastleigh, Fareham, and Gosport. | General household waste |
Example: items collected for Terracycle by the charity Kicks Count:
- Any brand crisp packets or crisp multipack wrappers
- Any brand baby food or yoghurt pouches (with/without lids left on) Including Nutrini pouches, Ella’s Kitchen branded snack wrappers and food & porridge pouches
- Biscuit wrappers, sweet not savoury e.g. Penguins inside and outside wrappers or custard cream packs etc in any brand.
- Any brand plastic cracker wrappers.
- Any brand plastic cake wrappers.
- Any brand plastic hair care packaging e.g. shampoo caps, conditioner caps, hair care tubes, bottles, pots, pumps, lids and caps.
- Any brand hair colourant packaging and bottles
- Any brand plastic skin care and sun protection packaging such as lip balm tubes and caps, face wash dispensers and tubes, pots, bottles, trigger heads, lids and caps.
- Any brand flexible plastic packaging such as single use hair mask packaging, sachets and wipes packaging.
- Good condition clothes, shoes, bags or accessories including new & part used make up and perfumes.
- Any brand toothpaste tube, box and packaging.
- Manual toothbrushes and electric toothbrush heads.
- Flexible wet pet food pouches.
- Flexible pet treat pouches.
- Flexible dry pet food pouches.
- Pringle branded crisp tubes and lids.
- Air Wick fragrance twin pack plastic sleeve.
- Finish dishwashing tablets dollypacks (plastic resealable bag).
- Vanish stain remover powder dollypacks (plastic resealable bag).
- Stamps – new or used.
- Washing up bottle lids.
- Kitchen and bathroom cleaners, spray triggers and Vanish spray triggers.
- Plastic air fresheners, cartridges and packaging.
- Home cleaning wipes packets.
- Milk bottle lids (clean without any paper attached)