Reuse

Dunoon has a brilliant selection of charity shops that contribute to the development of a more circular economy at a local level. However, a trip to Bogleha Recycling centre highlights the many missed opportunities for more items to be diverted from landfill and reused locally. There are some fantastic examples across Scotland of reuse centres co-located at amenity sites as a result of partnerships between local authorities and the third sector. These operations create green jobs and training opportunities alongside the provision of affordable goods for their community. The current amenities site at Bogleha’ does not have space to allow for expansion. 

Dunoon Foodbank is a small local charity providing food, meals and services, including pre-loved school uniform distribution, to some of Dunoon and Kirn’s most vulnerable people. The space is also being utilised for a youth club one night a week, a project established through Planet Youth that directly responds to local needs. 

To cultivate resilient communities, which enable the land and all living beings to thrive.

Times Square, one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world, faces significant waste management challenges due to its high foot traffic, fast food consumption, and entertainment industry. Overflowing trash bins, excessive single-use plastics, and improper recycling are common issues. The area's bright lights and bustling streets attract millions of visitors daily, contributing to a constant cycle of waste buildup. Despite the presence of trash cans and recycling bins, improper disposal and littering remain a major concern. Addressing these challenges requires improved recycling infrastructure, increased public awareness, and stricter enforcement of waste regulations to keep Times Square clean and sustainable.

The aim of the Victoria Coolkit is to help local residents better understand and improve the value of green spaces in the city, to provide a new way of understanding the climate crisis at the neighbourhood level, and to bridge individual ideas to neighbourhood-wide actions. The project developed tools and guides to gradually ramp up community engagement through conversations, maps, visioning and action.**Note: the Victoria Coolkit cohort covers the downtown Victoria area, with other Coolkit cohorts running in Vic West, James Bay and South Jubilee

Design and Reuse with shipping containers. This is an eyecatching office, please  visit lot-ek.com/

Category Is Books is a Glasgow's local, independent, queer/LGBTQIA+ bookshop in the city's Southside. Everyone welcome (they're emphatic about that)! Founded & run by a couple, Category Is "hope[s] to create a space for the LGBTQIA+ community to learn about, be inspired by & share in [their] love of queer books, art, history, activism, writing & storytelling."

Public library located in the Gorbals area of Glasgow's Southside.

A not-for-profit cooperative secondhand clothing shop in Glasgow's Southside, supporting the work of the Glad Foundation (link below) - which is also supported by the Glad Café, a separate listing here on Glasgow Green Map (link also below!)

Pre-loved children's clothes, toys, & baby goods.

The Glasgow Tool Library is just what the name says!

Specialty-coffee & bakery in Glasgow's South Side. Vegan options & lots of local flavour.

Located on Glasgow's Southside near Strathbungo Cross, Bawn is an 'Ethical Textile Atelier', offering textiles by the metre (or 1/2 metre!), haberdashery goods & supplies (including clothing patterns with a contemporary emphasis), books on sewing / textiles / fibre art, fabric remnants (avoiding waste that's common in the textiles industry), & in-shop events.

Small & friendly indie coffee shop serving coffee, cakes, & toasties. Vegan options available. All produce is sourced locally, supporting other small businesses, including locally-baked goods (some vegan!) & a bespoke espresso blend from The Good Coffee Cartel (based in Kinning Park, Glasgow - also listed here on the Green Map!). Beans are available to buy for home brewing in reusable, infinitely-recyclable tins, with a small discount available on refill.

Dear Green (a reference to Glasgow, which is often referred to as the 'Dear Green Place' ['glas' means 'green' / 'grey-green' in Scottish Gaelic]) is a local coffee roasters who roast specialty coffee with passion, ethics, & good vibes at the centre of all they do.

R:evolve Clothing is a unique project with the aim to reduce clothing consumption, cutdown carbon emissions and decrease landfill waste. We do this by bringing back some good old-fashioned ideas like swapping, sharing, mending and making. We work with a point based system: children's clothing is 1 point, men's and women's shirts, sweaters and trousers are 2 points and dresses and jackets are 3 points. Everyone can become a member of our shop, which gives you five free points to spend on clothes in our shop. Members can also swap the clothing they no longer wear, which gives them new points to spend in one of our three high street boutique shops.

*Please note - City Centre (St.Enoch) store is now closed. ApparelXChange has a new store in the Southside, at 65 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ.

https://www.anchorsupplies.com/

Berwickshire Swap hold children's clothes and toy swap around the borders and east Lothian. A great way to stop clothes and items going to landfill. 

New York Harbor School students collaborate with Earth Matter, a nonprofit organization helping the public with organic collection into compost. Their goal is to reduce organic waste put into garbage by encouraging and teaching people to compost, which is precisely what happens here. Earth Matter teaches the students how to compost, and then they use that knowledge to compost for the actual school, which is why they have that big tub. It's used to grind up the organic waste and make it into compost to fertilize the plants. Over the last three years, students have diverted about 30,000 lbs of school organic waste.

The Governor's Island Harbor School farm is a small-medium sized super clean farm in front of the school and thrives with wildlife. Even though there's trash and recycling bins all over the island there is still a lot of trash around the island, however this problem can be easily solved by the community picking up any trash they see and properly sorting it.  This is very important because properly sorting materials can result in healthy soil for food to grow, and less pollution.  Organic collection is collect at the school and turned into compost.  By using food scraps and waste it can benefit the harbor farm by making nice soil for food to grow.  Additionally to help with zero waste you can re-use and recycle objects so that it doesn't go to waste! We do this work with Earth Matter. See more info:  https://earthmatter.org/

Home Basics has been supporting and encouraging reuse for over 20 years. We have outlets in Walkerburn and Hawick.

This is a terrific resource for food rescue - 20,000 meals a week from produce & ingredients were procured on their way to the compost bin. The quality & richness of the dishes served here is very high! Sustainable diet shift at all levels. 

FR :La Ressourcerie Des Futurs gère la récupération, la valorisation et la revente d'objets, en menant une action de sensibilisation et d’éducation à l’environnement sur le territoire marseillais. En proposant un accompagnement social et professionnel aux personnes sans emploi rencontrant des difficultés multiples et variées.