We Give Our Furniture A Second Life

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Don't chuck it. If your junk still has some reusable life in it, don't throw it out with the rubbish: someone somewhere can probably find a use for it.

We are producing increasing amounts of waste each year, which means we are using natural resources at a faster rate than ever and putting more strain on the environment's capacity to deal with our waste products.

Why giving furniture a second life is good for you

• Doing good - Donate usable furniture and other consumables such as clothing and other household objects to charity shops, schools, community centres, friends or neighbours

• Reducing the amount of waste you produce There are 2,300 landfill sites in the UK. Existing landfills are predicted to be full within 5 to 10 years. Rubbish from cities is often transported many miles by large lorries burning lots of fuel and creating more pollution.

• Generate extra income Sell items you do not need any more at garage sales or in auctions.

Why giving furniture a second life is good for the environment?

• Contributes to reduce the effect of Climate Change - Waste send to landfill produces Green House Gasses, main contributors of Climate Change, when decomposing.

• Saves natural resources
• Most families throw away about 40kg of plastic per year, which could otherwise be reused/recycled. 275,000 tonnes of plastic are used each year in the UK, that’s about 15 million bottles per day.
  
• £36,000,000 worth of aluminium is thrown away each year.
  
• Each UK family uses an average of 500 glass bottles and jars annually. Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.
  
• Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials. It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.