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Nine students created and ran a thrift store using donated clothing. One week of sales raised more than $1,100 for three organisations supporting young people and families.
Twenty-seven Secondary 2 students and Environmental Ambassadors worked with elderly residents at Sunlove Active Centre, teaching them to make useful items from recycled materials.
Students, staff and volunteers repair electronics, textiles and other items together. A 2025 session repaired seven of eight items, keeping useful equipment in service and reducing waste.
Students cleaned outdoor facilities at The Peel community centre, sorted recycling and made items supporting Great Ormond Street Hospital and Age UK.
Students and community repair volunteers run a repair café fixing electrical items, small appliances and textiles, keeping usable goods out of waste and sharing repair skills.
Students created a weekly recycling system after district recycling ended, collecting six to eight bags of plastic each week and also carrying out community trail maintenance and planting.
More than 200 student volunteers joined a 400-person coastal clean-up that removed about 200 kg of plastics, glass, rubber and other waste for disposal or recycling.
A team of 18 IB students organised a beach clean-up and filled more than 10 large bags with plastic bottles, cigarette waste and other litter.
Twenty teacher-education students carried out a large-scale beach clean, removing plastic bottles, broken glass, cigarette butts, metal and textile waste from the shoreline.
Students cleaned parks, walking routes, green spaces and the area around the school, separating plastic, paper, glass and organic waste for recycling.
Students worked with a local waste-classification association to clean 3 km of coastline, collecting more than ten bags of rubbish and separating recyclable material.
Students collected unwanted clothes and ran a swap shop so classmates could exchange them; more than 12,000 items were collected for the latest sustainable-fashion initiative.
The student council organised a clothing swap shop, giving pre-owned clothes another life while promoting more sustainable fashion choices.
Students and teachers donated unwanted clothes and accessories for the school's first Swap Shop, keeping usable clothing in circulation.
Students donated clothing and exchanged tickets for pre-used items in a school Swap Shop designed to reduce fast-fashion consumption and textile waste.
Departing students donated household goods, clothing, electronics and books for incoming students to take free, keeping useful items in circulation instead of waste.
Students created a Swap Shop that collects household goods left by departing residents and redistributes them free to incoming students, reducing waste and start-up costs.
Students collect, sort and sell donated clothes and other items for €1, with leftovers donated to local organisations and proceeds funding further student community-impact projects.
Students meet twice a week to learn practical bicycle repair by restoring used bikes, building mechanical skills while supporting cycling and reuse.
Grade 9 students repair and refurbish used bicycles supplied by community bike organisation The Wrench; after eight weeks students receive a restored bike, helmet and lock.
IT students repaired and prepared unused computers for people in L'Horta Sud, working with Fundación Altius to return usable equipment to the community.
Students provided a solidarity technical service recovering information and repairing devices damaged by the floods, producing both social and environmental benefit.
IT students diagnosed, repaired and refurbished flood-damaged computers from schools, libraries and homes, returning usable equipment while reducing electronic waste.
IT students recovered and refurbished electronic devices damaged by flooding, returning equipment to affected communities while reducing digital exclusion and electronic waste.
Students repair bicycles in a school workshop, developing practical and teamwork skills; proceeds from the workshop are donated to local cancer support.
Students analysed food waste and sustainability, examined how their own school contributed to the problem, evaluated solutions and developed ideas for reducing waste.
Students tested recipes and assessed improvements to school catering as part of a live regional project intended to reduce food waste and improve school meals.
Students used food waste from the school canteen to create fertiliser, developed soil beds and grew vegetables, linking waste reduction with food production and community benefit.
Pupils worked with Repair Café volunteers to repair broken toys, stuffed animals and other items, learning practical repair skills while keeping usable goods out of waste.
Year 2 HAVO pupils brought around twenty broken electrical devices and worked alongside Repair Café Leiden volunteers to diagnose and repair them.
Volunteer fixers help people repair broken electronics at free community events, extending product life, reducing electronic waste and teaching repair skills. London groups recorded 1,221 successful fixes in 2025.
Residents share access to thousands of tools instead of each person buying their own. Workshops and experienced helpers also give people practical skills and confidence to repair, renovate and make things themselves.
Volunteer fixers help residents repair household items and learn repair skills rather than throw things away. A City of Toronto case study reported more than 6,050 items diverted from landfill since 2013.
Neighbourhood sharing libraries let people borrow useful household items instead of buying them. The model saves money, reduces waste and creates practical community infrastructure for sharing resources and skills.
Young people worked with residents, municipal cleaning staff and community groups to clean a hazardous rubbish accumulation on the main road; 35 volunteers took part.
Local organisations and residents established Kuwinda's first designated waste collection site and began weekly waste pickups in a settlement of more than 5,000 people.
More than 60 local people transform waste recovered from coastal clean-ups into durable construction materials; waste management efforts removed 157 tonnes of refuse.
Community-led systems improved waste collection and processing across three villages; 192 tonnes were diverted from environmental leakage and formal collection reached 1,639 households.
Residents participate in a community-led waste bank designed to increase recycling while creating environmental and financial value from collected waste.
More than 300 residents regained access to a community-led recycling programme in a settlement without formal waste-management services.
Schools, households and local organisations collect recyclable material through a community-driven recycling system; reported collections rose to 93 tonnes in 2024.
Volunteer repairers work alongside residents to repair clothing, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles and other possessions instead of throwing them away.
Volunteer repairers share practical knowledge with residents and repair household appliances, computers, clothing and other broken items together.
Volunteers work with residents to repair broken appliances, clothing, computers and furniture, extending the useful life of everyday possessions.
Volunteers run repair workshops and initiatives that help people learn practical repair skills, keep usable products in service and strengthen local repair culture.
Local communities collect and sort plastic waste and use small-scale recycling technology to transform it into new products and useful materials.
Residents process collected marine plastic into new materials and products through a community recycling enterprise, turning local waste into a useful resource.
Local plastic waste is processed with small-scale recycling equipment into useful objects, while workshops show other people how plastic can be reused locally.
A network of community drop-off points collects clean plastic for local recycling, making it easier for residents to divert plastic from waste and return it to productive use.
Volunteers and community partners tackle plastic waste through clean-ups, education and practical alternatives to disposable plastic.
Volunteers clear rubble and help repair homes and community buildings damaged by war, combining practical reconstruction with community events in affected Ukrainian villages.
Seventeen volunteers held a free repair event where more than 100 people brought broken appliances, phones, clothing and other items for practical repair rather than disposal.
Volunteers operate a tool-lending library, repair broken household items at community events, and use shared tools in neighbourhood service projects.
Volunteers support a shared tool library and repair activities, enabling residents to borrow rather than buy tools and giving donated tools a useful second life.
Community repair events where volunteers help people repair household items and learn repair skills.
Community tool-sharing library with workshops, practical skills and thousands of tools to borrow.
Community shed offering woodworking, bike repair, metalworking, books, music and social activities.
Community-led repair sessions where volunteers and visitors work together to repair household items and share skills.
Community shed offering woodturning, art, horticulture, social activities and practical community projects.
Volunteer-powered tool library and workshops where members borrow tools, make, repair and learn practical skills.
Community workshop where members share DIY skills, work on projects and build friendships.
Volunteer-run library of things where members borrow tools and equipment, share skills and join workshops.
Community repair group helping people repair household items, electronics, clothes and textiles while sharing practical skills.
Volunteer repair group where people bring electrical and electronic items and work with repairers to fix them.
Volunteer repair community helping residents repair damaged everyday objects and share practical repair knowledge.
Community repair café where participants repair their own objects with help from volunteer repairers and shared tools.
Volunteer-run repair café helping residents repair household items, reduce waste and learn practical repair skills.
Volunteer repair community helping residents repair household items, share skills and keep usable objects out of landfill.
Monthly collective repair session where residents bring broken items and repair them together using shared tools and knowledge.
Community repair initiative where residents learn alongside volunteer repairers and keep broken possessions in use rather than discarding them.
Volunteer-run collective offering open bicycle self-repair workshops plus shared metal, wood and screen-printing workshop facilities.
Self-help bicycle workshop where people repair their own bikes using shared tools, recycled parts and practical support from others.
Open community bicycle workshop run by volunteers where people repair or build their own bikes using shared tools, reused parts and help from other participants.
Community repair and maker space promoting repair, upcycling and DIY. Volunteers run regular Repair Cafés where residents repair everyday objects together and learn practical skills.
Open DIY bicycle workshop where residents use shared professional tools and recycled parts and learn to maintain and repair their own bicycles with volunteer mentors.
Community repair initiative bringing neighbours together with repairers to fix household items, learn basic repair skills, reduce waste and share practical knowledge.
Local volunteer association where residents repair broken household items alongside volunteer repairers, sharing skills and extending the useful life of possessions.
Volunteer-run community repair group where residents bring broken household items, clothing and other possessions and work with repair volunteers to give them a second life.
Community repair association running collaborative neighbourhood repair workshops where volunteers and residents work together to repair household items rather than discard them.
Community repair group bringing volunteers and residents together to repair broken items, share repair skills and reduce waste.
Community repair group holding recurring sessions where people can bring broken items and repair them with help from volunteers.