The beginning of November saw the opening of the latest Re-Use Shop project for LARAC Partner, FCC.
The new re-use shop, which will help save useful items from the scrapheap, provide hundreds of bargains for Wrexham residents and provide vital support to Nightingale House Hospice, has opened.
The shop, at the Recycling Centre on Bryn Lane, Wrexham, was officially unveiled by the Mayor of Wrexham, Cllr John Pritchard, Cllr David A Bithell, FCC Environment Contract Manager Mac Kenrick and Eluned Griffiths, Chair of the Board of Nightingale House during a short ceremony on the 16th November.
The project will see FCC Environment staff salvaging items that may be usable but have been taken to the Recycling Centre’s at Bryn Lane, Brymbo and Plas Madoc by local residents to be disposed of.
The public can also choose to donate items proactively.
All items will then be cleaned and safety tested in order to be sold at the re-use shop which will be run by local charity, Nightingale House which provides specialist palliative care services, completely free-of-charge, to patients and their families across a wide area stretching from Wrexham, Flintshire and East Denbighshire to Barmouth and the border towns including Oswestry and Whitchurch.
This is the first time that Wrexham recycling centres have opened a re-use shop on site.
The range of materials being sold includes electrical items from hoovers to blenders, furniture from chairs to dressers, children’s toys along with prams and highchairs, sports equipment including golf clubs and bags, weights and even skates, CDs and DVDs, books, bicycles and DIY and garden tools.
Cllr David A Bithell, Lead member for Environment and Transport, who himself donated a vacuum cleaner to be reused, said: “The new re-use shop is a great asset to Wrexham local communities using this facility. We’re really pleased that FCC Environment have been able to work with Nightingale House to deliver the shop here at Wrexham. Re-use stores are becoming incredibly popular, raising thousands for charity and, crucially, preventing unnecessary waste from being thrown away. We hope people will embrace the concept, make good use of the shop as both suppliers and customers and pick up a bargain along the way.”
Eluned Griffiths, Chair of the Board at Nightingale House who donated a vintage teapot said: “The store is looking great and we can’t wait for even more items to start flooding in. It’s a great idea for people to get involved with and I’m sure the people who donate will feel like they’re giving back to the community by helping the charity.”
Fernando Capelestegui, Central Region Director at FCC Environment, added: “We’re delighted to have entered into this partnership with Wrexham County Borough Council and Nightingale House. Our re-use stores have proven incredibly popular across the country and are providing residents with bargains as well as preventing items which are re-usable from being discarded.”
