The Circular Communities Reuse Consortium is happy to celebrate the New Year 2023! With a big thank you to our members, who make all of our work possible and saving waste from landfill, and the Housing Associations and Local Authorities we work with to provide easy [...]

The Reuse Consortium would like to extend a huge thank you to our Reuse Consortium Members, who have helped divert significant amounts of waste from landfill this year, whilst supporting their communities across Scotland. We'd also like to celebrate the amazing work they do at this [...]

The Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium was delighted to be represented at the Circular Communities Scotland 2022 Annual Conference 'Circular Solutions; Supporting Communities'. Hosted at the RADDISON BLU Hotel in Glasgow on November 23rd, the 2022 Annual Conference was Circular Communities Scotland's first in person conference [...]

Circular Communities Scotland's Reuse Consortium is delighted to report that Aberdeen City Council is looking to increase its purchasing through the Reuse Consortium, with the Temporary Accommodation department planning to start buying reuse furniture from Instant Neighbour to furnish its properties. This partnership will further support [...]

Reuse Consortium Members Cunninghame Furniture Recycling Company have teamed up with North Ayrshire Council for an innovative mattress reuse project.   Reuse Consortium Coordinator Nicola Aeberli visited Cunninghame Furniture Recycling Company in Irvine to see its showroom and warehouse and find out more about its mattress [...]

The Reuse Consortium is keen to extend a huge thank you to all of our Consortium members, local authorities and housing associations who signed to show their support for our parent brand Circular Communities Scotland’s ‘Policy Paper for Scotland’s Circular Economy’. Circular Communities Scotland and Reuse [...]

The Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium is delighted to announce our best ever year of trading, helping us save over one million kilograms of furniture since our inception.  The Reuse Consortium achieved its best year of trading ever in the financial year 2021-2022, with purchasing reaching over [...]

Perth & Kinross Council have decided to become a regular purchaser through the Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium following a successful 1.5-month pilot with Transform Community Development.   During the pilot, 548 kg of furniture were diverted from landfill (equivalent to 1.45 tonnes of CO2), 14 low-income [...]

Circular Communities Scotland’s Reuse Consortium is proud to facilitate meaningful relationships between our consortium members, who provide quality reuse furniture and white goods, and Local Authorities and Housing Associations, who furnish properties for community members across Scotland. Consortium member New Start Highland and The Highland Council’s [...]

December 2021 marked the month that the Circular Communities Scotland team waved goodbye to Lesley Campbell, our outgoing Reuse Consortium Coordinator, and welcomed Nicola Aeberli into the role. Lesley was in post for over three years, during which the Reuse Consortium went from strength to strength. [...]

The Circular Communities Scotland Reuse Consortium has been featured as a case study in ‘Clusters of social and ecological innovation in the European Union, perspectives and experiences’ which assesses ‘the role of clusters and similar forms of business cooperation in fostering the development of social economy’ [...]