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We're shortlisted for the TheMJ awards! 🎉 Our two-year circular neighbourhood project, Heston in the Loop, is up for an award in the 'Innovation in delivering sustainability and social value' category. Delivered with in partnership with the London Borough of Hounslow, Heston in the Loop was a demonstrator circular economy neighbourhood that introduced circular solutions to empower the Heston community to waste less and reuse, repair, share and recycle more. 👏 Congrats to all nominees - we look forward to celebrating with you at the awards. 👉 Learn more about Heston in the Loop here: https://lnkd.in/ewkwA8ry #circularneighbourhood #circulareconomy #zerowasteeconomy #mjawards

Welcome to the March '25 edition of 'ReLondon Roundup' - our newsletter bringing you the latest #circulareconomy updates and opportunities from London. In this edition: 🧵 Sign up for the launch of London's Textiles Action Plan 💻 Be part of the UK's first electronic repair voucher scheme ♻️ Access resources on the upcoming Simpler Recycling reforms. Happy reading! #circularity #circularnews #sustainabilitynews #linkedinnewsletter #circulareconomy #zerowasteeconomy

🍏 In London, 2.3 million tonnes of food is wasted from across the food supply chain every year. Reducing this waste by 50% and shifting towards more healthy and sustainable diets could achieve a 31% reduction in annual food-related consumption based emissions. We’re working with councils in London to improve the environmental impacts of the food they serve and reduce the amount wasted through London's Food Purchasing Commitment. 👉 Find out more in this year’s #GoodFoodLocal London report by Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming and find out which councils are taking action on climate: https://lnkd.in/eZZYzuA2 #circulareconomy #zerowasteeconomy #foodwaste #circularfood #foodwastereduction

Heading to edie25? 👉 Don't miss our business transformation manager, Lamia Sbiti's panel session 'Circular economy strategies - Unlocking the business opportunity' - tomorrow on the Circular Stage! Lamia will be joined by speakers Sophie Goddard, Director of ESG at Canary Wharf Group, Rosie Wollacott Phillips, Head of Sustainability at Mulberry England, Sonia Thimmiah, Senior Director – Global Sustainability at The HEINEKEN Company and Nathan Gray, Head of Sustainability at Reconomy Connect. 📅 Wednesday 26 March 🕐 1:30pm - 2:30pm 📍 Circular stage See you there! #edie25 #circulareconomy #zerowasteeconomy #circularbusiness

Join ReLondon, London Councils One World Living team and the Greater London Authority for the launch of our new report, London Textiles Action Plan - register here: https://lnkd.in/e82fAaN2 Developed in partnership between the London Councils’ One World Living programme, ReLondon, Greater London Authority, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, this action plan aims to support London’s fashion industry transition to a zero waste, low carbon circular economy. Aligned with the United Nation's International Day of Zero Waste 2025, for which this year's theme is "Towards zero waste in fashion and textiles", this event will provide an introduction to the vision, the actions and the opportunities to get involved or support within the London Textiles Action Plan. You’ll hear from Richmond and Wandsworth Councils, WRAP, British Fashion Council, and The Seam on why this action plan is so critical for fostering collaboration and innovation and enabling London to become a global exemplar for circular fashion and textiles. 👉 To find out more about it and how your borough or organisation can get involved, register for the launch webinar here: https://lnkd.in/e82fAaN2 #circulareconomy #zerowasteeconomy #circulartextiles #textilewaste West London Waste Authority Mete Coban MBE

🍏 Action on food waste presents a huge opportunity to help tackle many of today’s biggest health, economic, social and environmental challenges. In London, there's an already sizable and diverse community of innovators all working to support the transition to a circular food system - reducing the amount of food wasted and cutting emissions. As part of our UK-SPF funded grant scheme, we supported ten pioneering circular food businesses to scale up their operations and impact, while advancing London’s circular food system. 👉 Read the case study here: https://zurl.co/INAj #foodwasteactionweek #circulareconomy #food #zerowasteeconomy #foodwaste #ukspf | Howard Dawber

🛠️ Are you a North London electrical repair business? It's not too late to join the London Repair Voucher scheme and offer 50% (up to £50) off the repair of household electrical and electronic items and tech at no cost to your business. Running from April 1 - September 30, this trial is assessing if lowering the cost of repair for citizens helps drive demand for local repair services, as seen in Austria where businesses saw an 80% increase in demand for repair services during a voucher scheme and 54% increase after the scheme ended. What's in it for you? 👋 Increased customer demand 💰 Guaranteed payment and easy reimbursement 👀 Free marketing and exposure 🤝 No upfront costs and full support ♻️ A flourishing repair culture in your community Interested? 👉 Find out more and register to take part: https://zurl.co/eOXIz #repairvoucher #repairvoucherscheme #repair #circulareconomy #zerowasteconomy North London Waste Authority FixFirst - The OS for Circular Services & Products The Restart Project

📣 It's #FoodWasteActionWeek! And we're busy helping London's residents, businesses and local authorities reduce food waste - here's a taster of what we're up to 👇 🍏 Our citizen-facing campaigns, #EatLikeaLondoner and #LondonRecycles are sharing food waste content - from buying loose, to waste-busting recipes, these tips help Londoners save money and make the most of their food shop. 📈 Our business support team continue to accelerate London's food business community on their circular journeys. Recent grants for high street food businesses helped a number of businesses to purchase food waste tracking bins to monitor their in-business waste and use the data to support food waste reduction plans, to name an example. ☕️ We're working with Islington Council on a six-month circular food community project. In February we opened a new community café and pantry that uses local surplus food to offer pay-what-you-feel lunches and home cooking workshops for residents. Other project activities include providing business food waste workshops, school canteen training, resident cooking and food growing workshops, and more. 🤝 In partnership with London Councils and Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, we've developed a food purchasing commitment that empowers local authorities to improve the environmental impacts of the food they serve and reduce the amount wasted, whilst ensuring value for money for their contracts. Interested in learning more about our #circularfood initiatives? Visit this page 👉 https://zurl.co/e0wLI #foodwaste #circulareconomy #zerowasteconomy #lowwastefood

🎉 Last night we co-hosted an event with Sustainable Fashion Meet-up Community bringing together London's circular fashion innovators to celebrate the closing of our ReWear grant programme and its impact in growing London's circular fashion ecosystem. 👚 Last November we awarded grants to 10 London-based circular start-ups and early-stage businesses that are pioneering a repair, resale and/or rental solution for textiles that helps reduce the need for making new clothes. ♻️ Throughout the programme, our business support team were on hand to help grow and expand the businesses and amplify their impact as circular innovators. Since November 2024, our grantees have: ♻️ Extended the life of 3,500+ items of clothing 💼 Reported an increased visibility of their business with 200+ new customers/bookings 🤝 Formed 22 new business partnerships 👔 Created and/or safeguarded more than 10 jobs All that in just 4 months! It was brilliant to all convene last night to hear about the impact the grantees have had, and connect with wider members of London's circular fashion community. We'd like to thank our grantees for joining us for the event and sharing their successes with us: The Seam, Vamp Sneaker Cleaning, SOJO, Verte, Give Your Best, Tern Eco, Known Source, Continue , KIRAA and Bundlee. These grants were made possible thanks to funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and supported by the Mayor of London. #circulareconomy #circularfashion #fashion #textiles #reuse #repair #resale #rent #rewear #UKSPF | Howard Dawber

📌 Handy webinar from The Felix Project for businesses handling food 👇 🍏 Food Waste Matters: Get Ready For The New Food Waste Recycling Rules 📅 Wednesday 19 March | 10:30am - 12:00pm 🖱 Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGmMSbfq #foodwaste #simplerrecycling #foodredistribution #food #foodbusiness