{"id":758,"date":"2025-03-06T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/?p=758"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:14:46","slug":"5-organisations-championing-a-circular-economy-on-match-my-project-and-how-you-can-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/5-organisations-championing-a-circular-economy-on-match-my-project-and-how-you-can-get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Five organisations championing a circular economy on Match My Project … and how you can get involved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MIX community fridge at Sustainable Wantage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over two billion tonnes of household waste is generated every year across the globe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This figure excludes other types of waste like agricultural, construction, commercial, and healthcare waste, for which data is severely lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If packed into shipping containers and placed end-to-end, this waste would wrap around the equator 25 times.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local responses to a global crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the climate crisis is a global crisis, its effects are deeply local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local, often under-resourced, communities are among the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, but also among the most innovative in creating solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can achieve what large-scale national and international programs often cannot: implement solutions that align with both community needs and ecological imperatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Adur Repair Caf\u00e9 Lancing as an example. This space, where people can learn how to fix things in community, tackles not only the global waste problem but also the local impacts of the cost of living crisis and the loneliness epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spoke to five community organisations on Match My Project that are championing a circular economy and building more resilient communities. Find out more about their localised responses to the waste crisis, and how you can get involved, below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adur Voluntary Action<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adur Voluntary Action<\/a>, a community organisation on Hyde Housing Association\u2019s Match My Project site, started Adur Repair Caf\u00e9 Lancing at the end of 2024 with a small grant from Lancing Parish Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have nine volunteers who can fix a variety of household items – including clothing repairs – and other volunteers who make tea, bring cakes and sign people into sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each session at Adur Repair Caf\u00e9 Lancing sees approximately 10 items, of which about 60-70% are repaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repair Cafes help to keep items out of landfills; save people the cost of purchasing new items; afford opportunities for people to share their skills and learn new ones; and bring neighbours together; creating a more connected community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Match My Project, Adur Voluntary Action matched with Philip Pank Partnership LLP who funded a sewing machine for the repair caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saffi Price, CEO of Adur Voluntary Action, has these top tips for championing the circular economy in daily life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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