We’ve joined forces with Weyforward and Transition Towns to offer some new services at this shop on Lennox Street. Everything available there is intended to promote the ideas of the Circular Economy in one way or another. You can hire tools and appliances from the community Library of Things, purchase organic, plant-based foods, dispose of leftover paint or pick up cheap reusable paint, borrow from our small climate and nature lending library, buy some hand-foraged dried seaweed (a healthy and tasty seasoning) and, in the colder months, get yourself some recycled sawdust fuel briquettes.
…and maybe this could grow into a Re-Use Centre, or a network of Circular Shops. A Re-Use centre could be of a size comparable to the Household Waste Recycling Centre (tip), where instead of people dumping their waste to be disposed of by a private company for profit, goods and materials are re-manufactured, re-purposed, repaired or refurbished. It could be a centre for skill-sharing, training and employment and could include workshops, processing areas, educational facilities and a retail space.
A network of Circular Shops might offer many of the same things, but spread out across the town in smaller, more local units.