Products, materials or building elements exchange, second-hand market or store. Significant reused buildings, other examples of creative reuse and even online resources can be included.
For over 30 years, Lorn Toy Library has been supporting families across Oban, Lorn and the Isles with a focus on sustainable parenting. They offer a wide range of second-hand baby equipment, quality toys, early learning resources, and welcoming play sessions for local families.
De acordo com o Instituto (s/d) o projeto é uma referência para esta região da cidade, tornando-se um importante polo cultural onde a promoção de espetáculos, shows, eventos, oficinas de qualificação técnica e geração de renda, fomentam a cultura popular, criatividade, empreendedorismo e sustentabilidade da comunidade.
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.
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
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."
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!)