Kent’s first permanent reuse shop opened at the New Romney Household Waste Recycling Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\nAnd now a second one will open at the Allington Recycling Centre next month.<\/p>\n
It will be followed by the final pop-up shop of the year at Canterbury tip in Vauxhall Road on September 21.<\/p>\n
FCC\u2019s education and communications officer, Vikki Sedgwick, said of the Ashford pop-up: \u201cWe sold a lovely array of items and had continuous donations to reuse while we were there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne item in particular, an iron patio table and chairs, was sold within half an hour of being donated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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KCC cabinet member for environment, David Wimble<\/p>\n
\u201cThe day always flies by with many conversations about all things reuse and recycling and is lovely to see the local residents so interested and onboard with reuse and doing their part to help the circular economy and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, KCC\u2019s cabinet member for environment, David Wimble, added: \u201cAs our popular summer reuse pop-up shops come to a close, we\u2019re delighted by the enthusiastic response from customers and local communities alike.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis marks a significant step forward in our commitment to sustainability, and we\u2019re confident that reuse initiatives across Kent will continue to grow and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reuse container will remain at Ashford HWRC for donations from customers and will act as a feeder site into both the New Romney and Allington shops.<\/p>\n
Kent’s first reuse shop opened at the New Romney Household Waste Recycling Centre last month. Picture: Kent County Council<\/p>\n
Bosses at FCC say bookings are not required for those visiting its pop-up shops.<\/p>\n
The pre-loved items help raise funds for KCC charities such as the Young Lives Foundation and domestic abuse charity, SATEDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donated items have been given a new lease of life at the latest pop-up recycling shop in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[605,606,728,495,9137,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ashford","9":"tag-canterbury","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-maidstone","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112462584470286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}