Renew Hub: Manchester’s centre for reuse

Britain’s biggest reuse and repair centre has just celebrated its first birthday. In its first year of operations, Manchester’s Renew Hub has renovated and sold on 50,000 items – including 953 bikes, almost two thousand electrical items and six thousand items of furniture. In total, this has diverted over 500 tonnes from landfill, playing an important role in creating a local circular economy.

Items for potential reuse are identified at the council’s waste sites and re-directed to the Renew H...