Tag: Re-use
Any Electrical or Electronic Items that need fixing….
Electrical or electronic items that need fixing? Broken something and don’t want to throw it away?. The Restart Project, encourage and empower people to use their electrical and electronics longer! They are back in Tooting this weekend so do come along! Saturday 26th September – 2.30 – 5.30pmMushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, […]
Read More →Restart Party Report
Last Saturday, TTT hosted another Restart Party with the Restart Project at Mushkil Aasaan in Tooting. As usual the brilliant volunteer repairers did their utmost to help prevent an assortment of electrical goods from laptops to kettles to cameras from going to landfill. It can be scary to see your beloved item taken apart (see […]
Read More →Broken electrical and electronic items? Restart are back in Tooting!
Do you have an electrical or electronic item that needs fixing? Something broken you don’t want to throw away? Challenge the culture of built-in obsolescence and take back control of your electronic stuff…. The Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electrical and electronics longer, are running regular […]
Read More →The Anti-Upgrading Exhibition – at the Lightbox
‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’. This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition. Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in […]
Read More →Make Something, Meet People
This month’s Meet & Make is a sew fest! We have makes suitable for sewbies and sewsperts. All materials, expertise and equipment is provided for free (we do collect small, donations for the venue) so you can just turn up, have a chat, sew some seams and perhaps go home with some new hairbands, or a pair […]
Read More →Bottle Greenhouse action Sunday March 8th, 1100-1300 at Tooting Community Garden
When you were at school, was your classroom outside in the sun? We’re building a plastic bottle greenhouse at the Tooting Community Garden, along with Year Six from Gatton School. That means the children are preparing bottles that would otherwise be added to local waste or recycling. They are measuring the site and problem solving for […]
Read More →‘I never knew you could do so much with paper’
The title for this first TTT blog post of New Year 2015 is a parent’s comment at our ‘Reduce, Re-use, RESPARKLE!’ crafts making session run with the Tooting Library on the Saturday before Christmas. ‘I never knew you could do so much with paper’ is a great prompt for us all about seeing things differently, […]
Read More →Number 2 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’
Here is tweet number two: No.2 in @tttooting‘s 12 days to xmas: re-make, re-use & re-create to reclaim waste in new ways rebuildingcenter.org pic.twitter.com/uNsj5LroEg
Read More →Insect Hotel – trash to treasure (of sorts…)
Have you ever thought about how much material gets used once and thrown away? Or is not financially worth re-using? Or how most people won’t be satisfied buying something second hand, it has to be new? Somewhat in tune with Transition Network’s December theme of “Less is More” I thought it would be of interest to […]
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