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With childcare settings facing increased operating costs and reduced budgets, scrap stores are growing in popularity and saving hundreds of tonnes of waste from going to landfill.
According to Reuseful UK, a volunteer-led organisation supporting a network of 90-plus scrap stores, creative re-use and resource centres across the UK and Ireland, 70 per cent of its members are nurseries, childminders and schools, with numbers continuously rising.
‘As cuts are felt across the sector, settings will constantly be on the lookout for ways to access more competitively priced materials for art and play – scrap stores are the answer’, says Louise Lucas, managing director of Reuseful, whose network is utilised by 80,000 community groups, supporting up to seven million children, students and families.
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