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Ł8M reuse service launches in London

Joanna Lumley joins Boris Johnson to back the reuse and repair service

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and actress, Joanna Lumley, have launched an £8M initiative, funded by the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB), to create the UK's first city-wide reuse and repair service.

The London Reuse Network will be set up by the London Community Resource Network (LCRN), a charitable social enterprise, and will tackle the 65,000 tonnes of household products thrown out by Londoners each year, which end up in landfill sites, but could be reused or repaired. It will also provide a single reuse hotline and web portal to serve the whole of London.

Clusters of organisations, including local authorities and charities, will work together to deliver an easy to access and consistent reuse service to residents and businesses within their area. Everything from furniture, books, carpets and bikes, to cookers and fridges will be collected, stored, refurbished and sold on.

The aim is to prevent 17,000 tonnes of reusable products from going to landfill over the first two years of the initiative, saving more than 80,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. By 2015, the target is to divert over a million items from the waste stream each year.

Western Riverside Waste Authority, which manages waste from the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Wandsworth, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, will set up the first cluster.

Boris Johnson, said: "It is a common sense use of our natural resources that we provide ways for people to hand in items they no longer need, but which still have plenty of useful life in them. This funding is really welcome news, helping to create a service for Londoners to do exactly that and help to slash the mountain of waste being sent unnecessarily to landfill and cut the heavy economic costs of doing so."

Posted on 19 July 2010

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