Mayor Boris Johnson, long-time reuse champion actress Joanna Lumley OBE, and James Cleverly AM have announced £8m funding from the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWaRB) to create the world's largest city-wide 'reuse network', helping household items find a new home rather than being chucked away.

More here: http://www.lcrn.org.uk/projects/london-reuse-network/press-release

Hello all, thank you for joining us at the Skills Market at Camden Green Fair, London's most central green festival. We taught mending and repairing using both donated goods from TRAID, and damaged garments that you brought with you.

Have a look at more of the photos here: http://www.meetup.com/weallreuse/photos/962705/

Brush up your Vintage!

Come and join us for an evening of:

Top notch tips for repairs and mending
Vintage sewing techniques and inspiration
Pattern & material exchange
Perusing the vintage style library

To inspire and fire your imaginations *Miss Marilyn Monroe* will be joining us live and on film..

Bring your vintage projects and repairs: special guests couture jeweller Lucy Wills from seraglia.com and costumier and vintage stylist Helen Kathryn Goule will help you along.

Congratulations to Sheena, who on May the 1st 2010 competed wearing just one little black dress for an entire year.

Read more at http://www.theuniformproject.com/ and find out when she will start year two.

Of course such thrift is nothing new. Full slips and dress shields worn under the arms enabled women throughout the 20th century and especially during the war to wear just two or three dresses in rotation. This inspiring clip shows just how it was done in 1943.

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.

Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo’s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet.

Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.

Camden Council have organised another Give & Take event :

Have you any household clutter gathering dust? Bring items along to our
next event and make a pledge to recycle or reuse an electrical appliance.

Re-use is great for the environment because it uses less energy and resources and less waste is sent to landfill.

We usually redistribute at least 2-3 tonnes of household items at each event and our events are growing in popularity. And it means that Camden residents can find some treasure right at their front door.

take away for free:

Once we were a nation of shopkeepers; now we appear to have become a nation of hoarders.

A report today says that we fill our homes with so much clutter that the space occupied by our possessions has doubled in the past 30 years.

From home computers to toys, the growth in consumerism has meant that our belongings now take up nearly half of our homes.

Read the full story here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7027045.ece

Hi All,

Thank you to those of you who battled the snow and ice to make it to our December meetup. 14 people came swapped, mingled, bantered and feasted and left with wonderful new treasures.

Thank you to Kim Vision for the picture. For future event please join the meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/weallreuse

Recycle your clutter at the Give and Take Day

Highgate Newtown Community Centre

Time: 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM

Cost: FREE

Contact: Recycling Team

Telephone: 020 7974 6914

Email: recycling@camden.gov.uk

Ever wonder what happens to a billboard after it's been taken down? Assumed they just wound up in a landfill?