Slides presented at Connected Local Government Live 2017 29 June waste and recycling workshop

1. Reducing the cost of Local Authority Waste management
by working with a Reuse partner
Edward Hibbert
Board Chair, Freegle
www.ilovefreegle.org
chair@ilovefreegle.org
Connected Local Government Live 2017

2. •What is Freegle?
What we do:
Online dating for stuff
Reuse not recycling
Scale
Small by your standards!
2.5 million members across the UK
Hundreds of thousands of kilos / month
Charity
1000 volunteers
Open source
£20k / year across the UK

3. •What gets freegled?
•Household:
sofas / beds / wardrobes
garden tools
moving boxes
•White goods:
washing machines, TVs
Kids:
clothes, toys
Weird stuff:
air raid shelters, daleks, cinema organs, 3000 video tapes...

4. •Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reuse is the poor relation
•Bulky waste collection
Fly-tipping
Community
More resilient, connected communities
Reduces social deprivation
•Why should councils care?

5. •Building Clearance
•Kings House, Brighton 2016-17
•Saved money
Paid reuse manager
150 tonnes @ £134 / tonne vs paid waste clearance
£150k economic value
300 charities and community groups
500 local residents
150 local businesses
Brighton Waste House

6. •Data = Opportunities

7. What you should do!
•We want to work with councils to ensure reuse in your areas is quantified and promot
•Promote reuse
Less waste
More responsible
Stronger community
•Lead by example
Reuse it don't skip it
Clearances
In-house