Join us on Saturday 1st March at St Marys Acton Church, next to Acton Market for what could be the Final Reduce and Recycle hub. The hub has been running for 2 and half years but sadly our current funding that kept the hub going has come to an end. We are still hoping we might be able to have more events so please keep following us for more updates.
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March Reduce and Recycle hub
Pop along on 1st March from 11.30 to 3 pm where we will have all our popular activities, plus a free Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day for families to exchange costumes and fancy dress. Plus we have our regular activities, helping you to reduce your waste and recycled, with activities such as book swap, clothes collection, seed swap and Ealing Clothes repair cafe and more.
St Mary’s Church is at the heart of Acton town on The Mount, High Street, Acton, W3 9NW. Come inside and admire its beautiful architecture and join in the hubs activities to help reduce our waste and recycle more.
Ealing Council funded our hub from June 2024 until March 2025. During this time we have done a Halloween swap, 3 school uniform swaps, a Christmas Jumper swap and a Unloved Christmas Jumper swap and finishing with our Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day. The Reduce and Recycle hub was initially set up by Action West London with a Lottery grant from the Climate Action fund in 2021.



At our monthly hubs we gather together lots of great organisations and businesses that help people to reduce, reuse and recycle. We also have organisations involved in environmental causes, nature restoration and growing plants and your own veg. At the March Reduce and Recycle hub at St Marys Church Acton, you can:
RECYCLE:
Bring along and recycle:
- Clothing, Shoes and accessories (10am – 2pm) Donations for TRAID charity www.traid.org.uk/wlwa
- Fancy Dress Costumes by joining our Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day
- Small electrical appliances (10am – 2pm). These must be small –small enough to fit in a shopping bag to TRAID, see details www.traid.org.uk
- Ealing Waste Team collecting for Terracycle Also drop off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre Terracycle collections:
- Biscuits and Snacks wrappers. All brands of plastic biscuit wrappers, all brands of plastic cake wrappers and all brands of plastic cracker wrappers. (Not including paper or foil wrappers which are acceptable in Ealing doorstep recycling collection)
- Pringle Tubes with the metal bases only
- Coffee bean and ground coffee pouches and sachets. Not included is coffee capsules, coffee grounds. Any cardboard packaging is acceptable in the Ealing doorstep recycling collection.
- Bulk bags of tea bags and loose leaf tea packs. Cardboard packaging is acceptable in Ealing doorstep recycling collection. Also teabags are acceptable in the food waste doorstep collection. Not included is individual tea bag sachets.
- Plastic toothbrushes and electric toothbrush heads. Plus electric flosser nozzles, flossing sticks and interdental brushes and dental floss containers. (Not collecting battery or electric toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss.)
Ealing Council Waste team will also be there Question and Answer, where you can ask about your waste and recycling including your doorstep recycling and food waste collection. Find more tips and information here https://www.instagram.com/ealingrecycles/
REPAIR:
- Learn to fix your Clothes and textiles with Ealing Repair Café www.ealingrepaircafe.org
REUSE:
- Book Swap: Bring a book and take a book, with Churchfield Community Association
- Donate long life food to Ealing Food Bank: If you have left over unopened food that you want to pass onto a good cause, drop donations at the hub to support Ealing Foodbank in their ambition of anyone in our community should not go hungry. Check the Ealing Foodbank latest shopping list St Mary’s Acton Church always has a donation box so you can donate to this when the church is open.
- Upcycle with Ealing Repair cafe t-shirts and jeans : Learn how to make these great upcycled projects
Ealing Repair cafe will be providing materials for anyone who wants to make a free draught excluder. If you get there earlier, there could be a ready made draught excluder to take away for free. Draught excluders are great for keeping the warmth in and keeping the heating bills low. The team will be helping anyone who wants to come along and make one.
If you have some old pillows or towels bring them along to use them as stuffing to create your own draught excluder. Or go to their website for the instructions to make your own draught excluder. See Ealing Repair cafe for inspiration and guides on this and other Textile Upcycling Projects.

GROWING & Connecting to Nature
The natural world is an incredible wonder that inspires us all. It underpins our economy, our society, indeed our very existence. Reconnect with nature locally with:
- Cultivate London will be on site with seeds and plants to take away. They also will share information about their Acton Green composting project and tell you how to get involved https://www.spacehive.com/acton-green-waste-solutions
So pop along to the Reduce and Recycle hub and join the community of people who are helping Acton reduce, reuse and recycle more. For more information and links to all the great organisations involved in Reduce and Recycle hub.
Reduce and Recycle Hub Achievements
Since October 2022 at the Reduce and Recycle hub, we have:
- Saved 693kg of unwanted clothes and shoes from going to landfill
- Collected 223.1kgs of small electrical items for recycling
- Reduced carbon emissions (CO2) by 6.2 tonnes
- Helped save 1117.73 m3 of Water
- Taught clothes repair, upcycling and yarn making
- Resharpened kitchen and garden tools
- Helped rehome over 300 fiction & non fiction books
See our Reduce and Recycle Hub 2023 review and so far we have achieved.
Interested in being part of the Reduce and Recycle hub
- Are you part of an organisation, community group or as a trader interested in getting involved with the Reduce and Recycle hub?
- Or you can offer some time as a volunteer to help run some of the activities?
Please email our Reduce and Recycle hub manager, Mary Horesh at mary.horesh@actionwestlondon.org.uk.