{"id":1000,"date":"2020-02-20T01:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/?page_id=1000"},"modified":"2024-11-06T13:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:12:24","slug":"reuse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce and reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-eclipse-color has-text-color\">Reduce consumption and reuse things: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>stop them going to landfill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>save the energy needed to recycle them <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reduce the natural resources used to create new products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For things that are past reusing, please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/recycling\/\">recycling guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clothing <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Oxfam have a voucher scheme in conjunction with Marks &amp; Spencer.  Take a bag of donations to Oxfam and as long as there is an item of M&amp;S clothing in it they can give you a \u00a35 voucher to spend in Marks &amp; Spencer. There are various conditions attached to the voucher. Very handy as they are next door! There are some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/donate\/donate-goods\/mands-and-oxfam-shwopping\">terms and conditions<\/a> to the vouchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H&amp;M in Jackson Square accept clothing for selling on through the secondhand market, reuse as textiles, or recycling as fibres. They have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hm.com\/en_gb\/ladies\/shop-by-feature\/16r-garment-collecting.html\">voucher scheme<\/a> giving \u00a35 to use towards your next purchase of \u00a325 or more.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Spare food items can be donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsm-church.org.uk\/foodbank.htm\">Bishop&#8217;s Stortford foodban<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastherts.gov.uk\/benefits-financial-support\/food-bank-donations-help\">k<\/a> at the Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Furniture and larger items<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stortfordbaptist.org\/\">Baptist Church<\/a> can also take furniture for re-use. They have a warehouse and make things they store available to people setting up home e.g. people helped by the Winter Night Shelter. They do not take electrical goods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Things change. Please let us know if any of this information could be improved or extended. <a href=\"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduce consumption and reuse things: For things that are past reusing, please see our recycling guide. Clothing Oxfam have a voucher scheme in conjunction with Marks &amp; Spencer. Take a bag of donations to Oxfam and as long as there is an item of M&amp;S clothing in it they can give you a \u00a35 voucher&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/reuse\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Reduce and reuse&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1000","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1000\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}