{"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":"post","link":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Reduce and reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\\&quot;has-eclipse-color wp-block-paragraph\" 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\">Clothing <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\">Food<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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=\"\\&quot;wp-block-heading\\&quot; wp-block-heading\">Furniture and larger items<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bishopsstortfordclimategroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}