Green Hackney: Tree planting – Donate old toys

…and join tree planting at Well Street Common this weekend

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Toy gift appeal

Donate your pre-loved toys and electrical items

Think you’ll have toys and electrical items you could give to others after the festive period?

We’re running our Toy Gift appeal and Zero Waste Hub to make sure the items you don’t need can go to a new home.

Our Toy Gift Appeal gifts unwanted toys to children in the borough through charitable organisations.

You can donate your pre-loved toys between Thursday 2 and Wednesday 23 January 2020.

Toy Gift Appeal

We’ll also be hosting a Zero Waste Hub, our re-use and repair popup, on 26 January, where you can donate items you don’t need, take items you do and repair electrical items, textiles and bicycles for free.

We’re running the event in partnership with Forest Recycling Project, Hackney Fixers, TRAID and Dr Bike.

Come to the Redmond Community Centre, N4 2HF, at 11am-3pm on Saturday 26 January.

Zero Waste Hub

Tree Musketeers

Tree planting at Well Street Common this weekend

Join local volunteer group Tree Musketeers on Saturday and Sunday this weekend for tree planting at Well Street Common. You get to help make Hackney greener and meet new people at the same time!

Meet at 10am each day – look out for the Tree Musketeers flag.

Find out more


Street sweepers

Greener street sweepers hit Hackney’s streets

Hackney Council has taken delivery of 12 new state-of-the-art street sweepers, the first of 57 new vehicles ordered to meet tough new emissions rules set to come into force in October 2021.

The new sweepers are capable of running on hydro-treated vegetable oil, a renewable fuel that reduces emissions.

Find out more

Christmas competition

Win a plastic free toiletries set!

Our Christmas competition encourages people to give more sustainable gifts this holiday season.

Share a photo of your idea for an alternative gift that reduces packaging by tagging @greenerhackney on Facebook or Twitter and using #ZeroWasteHackney, and you could win one of nine plastic-free toiletries sets.


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