LOCAL COMMITTEE MEETING 3 rd SECTOR REUSE Chloe Tringham Waste - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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LOCAL COMMITTEE MEETING –

3rd SECTOR REUSE

Chloe Tringham – Waste Operational Manager Judith Bradshaw/Katharine Banks – Waste Prevention Officer

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T&F Report – 3rd Sector Reuse

A key element of the Task and Finish Group was due to the need to effectively collaborate with partners to ensure a countywide approach to the waste hierarchy that maximises the benefits of resources to Cumbrian households before they enter the waste stream.

• The overall findings identified 4 main areas:

– Building financial resilience within the sector – Developing the capacity of third sector reuse – Further engagement with members around third sector – Linking waste reuse to the Council’s wider approach

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T&F Report – 3rd Sector Reuse

Recommendation 4 Local Committees take a more proactive area-based approach towards the promotion of waste reuse benefits and opportunities in their locality

• Support local teams to list and map third sector organisations to better

understand the provision of waste reuse in each area.

• Local Committees will be encouraged to consider this matter as an

agenda item for a future meeting

• Work on mapping the 3rd sector organisations

– Make sure that all organisations are captured – Support on the communication of this initiative.

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Waste Hierarchy

The County is bound by legislation to apply the waste hierarchy as a priority order when dealing with waste:

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Re-use - examples

• Witnesses from T&F

– Freegle - online organisation facilitating a free internet-based service where people can directly give away and ask for items which would otherwise be

• disposed. With over 400 Freegle groups in the UK, with the six groups in

Cumbria broadly reflecting the districts – Impact - provides access to furniture for those in severe hardship or who are fleeing domestic violence

• Other good examples in Copeland
• To be discussed.

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Action taken

• Re-use Map – not for profit re-use
• rganisations/charities plotted
• www.recycleforcumbria.org/athome

/reusemap.asp

• Re-use Forum
• Resourceful Communities Grant

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Support from Local Committee

• Encouraging organisations to join

the Re-use Map

• Inform us about good examples of

Organisations we can approach

• Encourage joining up to the Forum

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THANK YOU Any Questions?