Reuse, Repair & Recycling
General Directory of Members
Repair, reuse and recycling are easy steps you can take to reduce your consumption and climate impact. CRNI Members provide these goods and services with a social impact, through their social enterprises, charities and voluntary organisations.
For more information about the goods and services our members offer to businesses and public bodies please visit our dedicated directory here.
Refill & repair at home
NATION-WIDE: Cloth Nappy Library Ireland lets you try reusable nappy kits from newborn to Potty training ages for only €20. Find out about borrowing here or the benefits of cloth here.
NATION-WIDE: Refill your reusable coffee cup at a cafe participating in the Conscious Cup Campaign for a discount or other rewards, using the map here.
NATION-WIDE: Refill your reusable water bottle using Refill Ireland ‘s free tap map network of over 1300 locations here.
MONAGHAN: Borrow quality, sustainably sourced toys rather than buying new with Carrickmacross Toy Library.
NATION-WIDE: Find a local repair service to extend the life of your everyday things with Repair My Stuff.
NATION-WIDE: Learn how to Stop Food Waste through shopping, storage and cooking tips here.
Fashion & Homeware
NATION-WIDE: Buy or donate quality second hand and vintage fashion, accessories and bric a brac from over 450 shops in the Irish Charity Shops Association. Find your local shop here.
Buy charity shop clothing, shoes, accessories and books / media online with Thriftify.
Give or find unwanted clothing, accessories and homeware for free online with FreeTrade Ireland or lend, give or find them online with WeShare.
DUBLIN: Buy 100% redesigned and repurposed clothing, accessories and homeware ranges from Rediscover Fashion.
Buy 100% upcycled clothing and accessories made from campsite and other textile waste at Attention Attire.
ROSCOMMON: Buy or donate quality second hand fashion, accessories and bric a brac or upcycled goods from Roscommon Women’s Network.
LIMERICK: Buy or donate quality second hand school uniforms, school books, fashion, books and bric a brac with Gateway to Education.
WEXFORD: Buy 100% upcycled accessories made from damaged wetsuits from The Upcycle Movement.
Furniture
NATION-WIDE: Irish Charity Shops, FreeTrade Ireland (online exchange)
DUBLIN: Rediscover Furniture (repair & sales), WeShare (online exchange)
BELFAST: East Belfast Mission
LONGFORD: Revamp 3Rs
LIMERICK: Back2New
KERRY: Kingdom Furniture
WATERFORD: Renew Enterprises
Creative Materials & Paint
NATIONWIDE: Find or Give surplus resources for repurposing and upcycling with The Upcycle Movement‘s Re-Source platform.
DUBLIN: Buy recycled and reblended paint from Rediscover paint the Rediscovery Centre Eco Store for €1 per 1 Litre. Please note they do not accept paint for recycling.
CORK: Buy recycled and reblended paint from Northside Community Enterprises in Cork Ciy or CycleSense in Skibbereen.
BELFAST, LISBURN: Buy surplus paint from East Belfast Mission through their Restores.
Bicycles
NATIONWIDE: Give or find bicycles for free on the nationwide platform FreeTrade Ireland or lend, donate or find a bicycle via WeShare.
CORK: Learn how to repair your bicycle or buy a reconditioned bike at Cork Community Bikes
Learn how to repair your bicycle, get it repaired or buy a reconditioned bike at CycleSense in Skibbereen.
GALWAY: Learn how to repair your bicycle or buy a reconditioned bike at An Mheitheal Rothar
WATERFORD: Have your bike repaired by qualified and experienced bicycle mechanics with Renew Enterprises
DUBLIN: Buy a reconditioned bike from Rediscover Cycling in the Rediscovery Centre.
Donate your old bicycle to RecycleIT where bikes and parts are reused where possible or recycled. Recycle IT are working with a Dublin based charity and social enterpriseto share bikes, bike frames and parts so bikes can be rebuilt and sold at affordable prices.
BELFAST: Donate to or buy bicycles from East Belfast Mission through their Restores in Belfast.
Mattress Recycling
DUBLIN: EcoMattress Recycling provides a domestic collection service in the Dublin area. Contact 018 603 619 or info [at] ecomatt.ie for a quote.
CONNACHT-ULSTER: BounceBack Recycling provides a domestic collection service in the Galway and wider area. Contact 091 760877 for a quote.
Electrical & other recycling
DUBLIN: RecycleIT is the only electrical, electronic and metal recycling service offering kerbside, door to door and organisational recycling collections in Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow. In addition to TV’s, monitors, laptops and servers, appliances and toys can also be recycled.
BELFAST, DONEGAL: Bryson Recycling delivers high quality, efficient and cost effective recycling services including kerbside collection for over 170,000 households in Northern Ireland (see here for locations) and recycling centres in Donegal (see here for details).
Workshops, Education & Events
Circular Economy – general
Keep an eye on CRNI’s events page for all member events.
Join a workshop with Rethink Ireland, who through demonstration and education, inspire others to action, and support their resilience and sustainability goals.
Offer or swap skills on exchange platform WeShare.
Parties & Events
ReCreate and Rediscovery Centre both offer children’s birthday party packages and run regular events.
Native Events is is Ireland’s leading sustainable event production company providing consultancy, equipment and staff for sustainable events.
Workshops, Education & Events
Creative Reuse
Learn how to upcycle with ordinary household materials with ReCreate’s online workshops. ReCreate also runs tailored workshops on creative reuse for all groups and ages.
Circular Fashion
Learn how to upcycle, sew and repair clothes or prevent food waste with the Use-Less Project or join an event where you can learn more about sustainable fashion or food waste prevention.
Learn how to upcycle or to identify business opportunities in ‘waste’ materials in our communities with The Upcycle Movement.
Food Waste
Learn how to stop food waste, make compost and use your brown bin successfully as a last resort with Diversion Green online or face to face with individuals, small or large groups.
Sign up to our quarterly newsletter for more information on reuse and recycling and be part of Ireland’s only reuse and recycling network. For information about our privacy practices, see here.
Our funders
EPA National Waste Prevention Programme
CRNI supports its members and works to mainstream reuse thanks to core funding provided by the EPA under the National Waste Prevention Programme.
For more information about the programme see here.
Project Funding
Pilot Northern Ireland Reuse and Repair Network
CRNI received funding from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and rural Affairs in 2020 to carry out a pilot establishing a reuse and repair network in Northern Ireland.
For more information about the project see here.
Qualification and Quantification of Reuse
CRNI is part of a research consortium working on the Q2Reuse project, which aims to develop a methodology for the qualification and quantification of reuse. This project will be concluded in 2021.
For more information about the project see here.
CRNI is the all island representative body for community based reuse, recycling and waste prevention organisations. We are funded by the EPA under the National Waste Prevention Programme and through membership contributions. CRNI is a proud member of the European RREUSE network.
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