Further Information for Councils

Working in partnership
The establishment of reuse networks will help councils meet a number of common environmental objectives and should specifically help to reduce the average weight of household waste collected per head of population. More generally, the initiative will promote the development of more sustainable communities at the neighbourhood, grassroots level.

If your council would be interested in helping us to promote this initiative to your residents, we would undertake to provide (electronically) the information that volunteers will need to set up reuse networks (e.g. template for the introductory letter, follow-up information for interested individuals, suggested design for the e-mail based network), contained in a step-by-step guide.

Volunteers will be provided with support and will be requested for information on how their networks are developing (e.g. participation rates). This information can be fed back to councils to enable them to track the progress made in their area.
If you are, or may be, interested in working in partnership with Reuse Networks, please email reuse.netwks@btinternet.com or use the Contact Us form.

Benefits to residents
Each neighbourhood-based reuse network should be fully open to all residents living within the defined geographical scope of that network. Each network will be set up and run by a volunteer who should be living in the neighbourhood. Those that join each network (at the start or subsequently) will become part of a new, vibrant initiative which is locally-based.

The reuse networks aim to encourage participants to be more creative in how they transfer goods that they no longer need and in how they source what goods they require, whether on a permanent or temporary basis.

Participants will benefit from the sense of well-being that emanates from being more connected to other residents in their locality.

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