Recycling

Clachworks is a socially inclusive space for making & remaking in Inverness.

Cut Out Club is a series of monthly, themed, collage zine-making workshops open to all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels.

Orkney Zerowaste is a local Scottish registered charity working in the community to raise waste awareness and offer practical recycling advice in Orkney.

Nimblefingers Project was set up as a constituted group to create opportunities for adults with additional support needs to come together in a safe environment to access and gain new skills alongside their community and peers. The Project promotes creativity and imagination by utilising small pieces of furniture donated by the public which would otherwise go to landfill.

Our core value is to reduce waste. To help our Comunity and surrounding areas (Grantown) achieve this we have created a unique shopping experience. Shopping with us is fun, therapeutic, calming, rewarding... and more! We offer a fantastic selection of refillable wholefoods, oils & vinegars, cleaning products and hair & body products. We are here to help make zero waste and eco-friendly shopping easy for everyone. We aim to source all our products as sustainably as possible and where we can, as local as possible. So you know you are supporting workers who receive a fair wage, good working conditions and protecting our planet.

We continue to take positive local action to address global environmental challenges We believe we can strengthen and build our community with our values by being: Inclusive, Collaborative, Engaging, Solution focused and Sustainable. We are proudly based and serve the Nairn community.

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Ullapool seasavers is a charity that is organized by a group of dedicated kids, for kids. Their moto is “People protect what they love” The group have come together with the mission to raise awareness of the challenges that are facing their local marine environment on the west coast of the Highlands, as well as helping to educate people about the sea and sea life, and to promote and celebrate how wonderful they know it really is.

Stronsay Development Trust's Stronsay Energy and Waste Matters project aimed to reduce waste and increase rates of recycling and energy efficiency. The project included opening a small recycling centre in the main village of Whitehall, plus a toolshare shed and a clothing swap scheme. Activities also included home energy efficiency advice and creation of cardboard briquettes for heating.

PlasticatBay collect plastic waste that has been washed up on local beaches and seafronts and melts down the plastic to repurpose it,

If you can carry it, our volunteers can try to fix it! One Sunday a month, 2-5, Boat of Garten Hall.

Recycling beach and household plastics on North Ronaldsay, tackling waste locally and turning a problem into a resource.

Restart Orkney sells good quality second hand furniture, household items and white goods at affordable prices, the profits from which go back into helping the local community. They also host upcycling workshops to encourage people to embrace a circular economy personally. Restart Orkney also has added community benefits by providing sustainable supported employment, training and volunteering opportunities for those with a barrier to gaining employment.

Bruckland SCRAN(Sensible Community Recycling At Northmavine) recycling centre is a place where surplus household goods can be left or collected or re-use, where scrap metal and waste plastic can be disposed of, and many a carbon footprint reduced.

Bressay Development Ltd run the Good as New shop where they sell 2nd hand items, thus contributing towards a circular economy and a reduction of waste.

Unst Partnership operates the UP shop which promotes a circular economy by receiving donations of household goods and furnitures and sells them on. Unst Partnership is currently developing a project to create a larger recycling and community hub on the Island.

Orkney Zerowaste is a local Scottish registered charity working in the community to raise waste awareness and offer practical recycling advice in Orkney.

Run by the Community Development Company of Nesting, the Nesting Scrap-store receives donations of households goods and furniture from the local community and sells them on, contributing towards a circular economy and waste reduction.

The Arisaig Eco Project (part of Arisaig Community Trust) is a small, community-based environmental project, and we bring people together in lots of ways, raising awareness of climate change ... growing food, re-using, swapping, sharing, reducing waste, enjoying nature, walking and cycling.