Wasted

Cat Fletcher

• Brighton Community & Voluntary Sector Environment Rep

• Brighton Waste House Resource coordinator

• Head of Media for Freegle UK

• Freegle Brighton Group

• Brighton One Planet Living Strategy

The world consumes

45-60 billion tonnes

of raw materials every year.

to make

For 7 billion people

About 600 million tonnes of products

& materials enter the UK

economy each year.

Only 115 million tonnes gets recycled.

55 Years worth of raw materials left if we keep making so much stuff.

2009 New Scientist published data

The Waste Hierarchy

New Waste Hierarchy

Reuse creates more jobs

25 jobs

2-4 jobs

1 job

RETHINKRedesignREDUCE

RepurposeREUSERestoreREPAIR

Renovate REPROCESS

Recycle

8 million tonnes wood is thrown out

every year in UK.

80% is reusable but is

not reused.

Brighton Wood

Recycling Store

collects 450 tonnes of

wood each year.

56 million litres of paint purchased every year in UK

- is never actually used.

Newlife Paint in West Sussex reprocessed ~100 tonnes of waste paint in 2009 to make new recycled paint.

By 2020 UK waste electrical & electronic equipment (WEEE) = 12+million tonnes.

Including precious metals worth £7 billion.

Each person in the UK buys 3 new electrical items each year –that’s 173 million nationally.

83% of sofas taken to tips are reusable but are not re-used.

Most reusable sofas are buried or burnt.

Crazy

Doubling the number of sofas re-used in UK every year could save

52,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

500 billion plastic bags

are used globallyEVERY YEARabout

10 billion in the

UK.

254 plastic bags were given out by

UK businesses every second

of every day in 2011.

2 seconds worth to make these

Don’t throw it away. Give it away.www.ilovefreegle.org

1.4 million UK members reusing resources

Furniture, IT, Bikes, TVs,White Goods, Electronics, Beds, Tools, Household, DIY materials, Books, Phones, Garden bits, Clothes, Arts, Crafts, Boxes, Books, Office stuff, Cars, Food, Toys, Camping gear……

www.ilovefreegle.org

41 SW Freegle groups-124K membersAxe, Seat `n` Lyme Freegle: 260

Bath Freegle: 11,435

Bournemouth Freegle: 15,531

Bradford on Avon Freegle: 4,791

Bristol Freegle: 1,621

Burnham on Sea Freegle: 59

Camborne Redruth Freegle: 2,582

Chard, Beaminster and Bridport Freegle: 2,064

Chippenham Freegle: 3,463

Dartmouth and Kingsbridge Freegle: 1,069

Dursley Freegle: 1,167

Exeter Freegle: 579

Falmouth Freegle: 7,950

Gloucester Freegle: 7,473

Hayle and St Ives Freegle: 2,066

Helston Freegle: 2,223

Kennet and Avon Canal Freegle: 28

Mid Devon Freegle (Tiverton, Crediton): 721

North Dartmoor Freegle: 205

North Devon Freegle: 517

Plymouth Freegle: 776

Purbeck Freegle: 724

St Austell Freegle: 369

Stroud Freegle: 5,386

Swindon Freegle: 89

Taunton Freegle: 759

Teignbridge Freegle: 2,855

Tewkesbury Freegle: 2,720

Torbay Freegle: 553

Torridge Freegle: 195

Truro Freegle: 9,917

Wadebridge Freegle: 3,411

Warminster Freegle: 2,703

Waste Not, Want Not, Christchurch: 344

Waste Not, Want Not, North Dorset: 2,893

Waste Not, Want Not, Poole: 7,293

Waste Not, Want Not, Weymouth and

Dorchester:11,612

Weston Freegle: 281

Wimborne Freegle: 2,316

Yeovil Freegle: 260

http://www.ilovefreegle.org/groups/south-west 123,929Penzance Freegle: 2,669

Waste is just a resource in the

wrong place.

Support Freegle

• Use the local group

• Promote local group

• Link on website

• Refer bulky waste enquiries

• Inform staff