Get a little help to buy less and waste less!

Buying less and wasting less are two ways to reduce your carbon footprint and your impact on the environment. Making new things and transporting them to us uses a lot of energy and materials. Manufacturing can also use a lot of water and other resources, and can lead to pollution. So, instead of buying new things, repairing the stuff you’ve got and buying secondhand goods can save you money and help the environment. Luckily for us here in Penrith & Eden, you can get a helping hand to repair and re-use goods with our friends at Freegle and Penrith Repair Cafe!

Repairs

If you’ve got something that’s broken, bring it along to Penrith Repair Cafe, where volunteers will take a look and see if they can fix it for you, free of charge.

Re-use

Got stuff you don’t want any more? Or is there something you need? Post on the Penrith & Eden Freegle Group. An amazing array of goods change hands on there, all free.

Cumbria Clothing Collective is working to reduce clothing waste in our county, with lots of great information and resources to help you repair clothes and stop them going to landfill. Did you know that the UK sends textile waste to countries like Ghana, where vast amounts of clothing are ending up dumped in their environment? We absolutely have to do better than this.

Refill

Need your water bottle filled in Penrith? You’re in luck! Quite a few shops and other premises in the town are part of the national Refill scheme.

You can find them on the Refill app – download it from your usual app store.

PACT initiated the scheme in Eden as part of our campaign to reduce plastic waste.