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“CUPS FOR LIFE”

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..

The Herb Kitchen goes “Silver”

Transition Buxton is delighted to announce that the Herb Kitchen, of Hardwick Street Road, Buxton, have become the first eatery to gain Surfers Against Sewage “Silver” status as they continue to reduce their use of single use plastic.  Andrew Pickup,..

Leyton’s Accountants count the cost of single use plastic

Transition Buxton isdelighted to announce that Laytons Chartered Accountants, of Manchester Road, Buxton, have become the latest business to sign up to work to reduce their use of single use plastic.  They join over 30 other businesses and organisations in..

Buxton Library of Things Celebrates One Year of Community Borrowing

The Buxton Library of Things is celebrating it’s first birthday. Launched on 30th January 2024 the community borrowing service has been embraced by local people – nearly 200 people have already registered to use the service. Situated in Buxton Library..

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Buxton Community School Hosts Clothes Swap to Combat Fast Fashion

Fast fashion, which sees clothing produced at a rapid pace and often discarded afterminimal use, has a significant impact on the environment. The global fashion industry isresponsible for an estimated 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with millions ofgarments ending..

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Repair Cafe Saves 6Tonnes CO2 in 2024

We held 9 instead of 10 Repair Cafes in 2024, because of having to cancel the November one due to snow. During those 9 sessions a total of 285 items were dealt with. Of these 146 (51%) were repaired and..

Hard to Recycle Bins
‘Hard to Recycle’ bins update

Sadly the Terracycle scheme that our ‘Hard to Recycle’ bins are part of has announced that they can no longer accept plastic writing implements, so unfortunately we will no longer be able to accept them.This is in addition to other..

Potato Day 2025 – Picking up your orders

If you order for delivery to Buxton your packed orders will usually be available for collection from the Transition Buxton Repair Cafe running on the 4th Saturday in January at the Methodist Church on Buxton Marketplace. Please come to pick..

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Free DVDs

Transition Buxton built up a library of nearly 30 films on DVD on topics relevant to the environment and system change.  The list can be viewed here. As the DVD format is starting to become less popular and the rate..

100 Loans Milestone for the Library of Things

Transition Buxton CIC is excited to announce that the Buxton Library of Things has completed over 100 loans or ‘borrows’. This Not forProfit enterprise run by volunteers has been occupying space within the book Library on Kents Bank Road since..