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When you visit the Recycling Centre do you find yourself eyeing up things others have thrown away and thinking you’d like to take them home? Some Household Recycling Centres now have Re-use Shops to reduce unrecyclable waste with the proceeds..
Clothes and fashion are one of the areas of life where the switch to sustainable is also a switch to a more social, creative, fun way of looking your best. Clothes Swaps are a great way to refresh your wardrobe..
Transition Buxton CIC is delighted to have recently donated monies earned from their recycling scheme to Connex Community Support. Transition Buxton maintains sets of ‘Hard to Recycle’ bins around the town (e.g. in Morrisons and Sainsburys) for items that can’t..
The Buxton Library of Things, run by Transition Buxton volunteers within the book library on Kents Bank Road is two years old on 1st February 2026. Buxton Library of Things is one of several hundred community enterprises across the UK..
We are delighted that High Peak Baby Bank and the Solitary Bee Nursery have decided to reduce their use of “single use plastic” and to tell their users of this pledge. If you would like to join the community, either..
Once again we are working with our friends at Transition Chesterfield to bring to Buxton Potato Day 2026. From 1st October 2025 until 14th November you can order potatoes for delivery to Buxton at the end of January 2026 ready..
Buxton Library of Things, run by Transition Buxton CIC volunteers and the first in Derbyshire has been operating since February 2024. The simple to use system allows local people to borrow items you only need once or occasionally instead of..
Our first Stitch Don’t Ditch sewing workshop on 20 May 2025 went really well. Everyone learned something new and most went home with something they’d created using waste materials. The volunteers were really pleased to support several people to progress..
The BIG FIX is back! Running throughout the whole of May, The BIG FIX has one aim – to fix and breathe new life into as many broken things as possible. Due to its huge success, The BIG FIX event..
Following encouragement from children at Buxton Community School, Buxton Football Club is moving away from the use of disposable plastic pint cups at the Tarmac Silverlands Stadium, replacing them with ‘cups for life’. Buxton FC Chairman, David Hopkins was intrigued..