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With so much focus on climate change, and pressure for everyone to achieve Net Zero. Lintel Trust wanted to support housing sectors by providing encouragement for communities to reuse and upcycle where possible. We found the social housing communities are least likely to recycle.

Lintel Trust managed to secure £9580 in National Lottery funding which provided introductory recycling workshops to tenants in the Glasgow area to help upskill them. Participants learnt new skills in sewing and textiles, woodwork and craft. They used a majority of waste materials during classes, aiming for zero-waste learning experiences for the tenants.

Reduce, Reuse & Raise Funds is the new mantra at Lintel Trust as the delivery of their new textile recycling container will be delivered to the SPA car park as of next week.

Although it’s only a blue recycling container this signifies the ongoing partnership between the Lintel Trust and Clyde Recycling and a new means to collect unwanted clothes and textiles and to fundraise for the Trust.

For every tonne of textiles, Clyde Recycling will donate £200 to Lintel Trust.

Clyde Recycling have over 30 years of leading experience in the Recycling and Clothes distribution industries and work with some of the UK's leading charities.

Money raised through the recycling banks will be ring-fenced for the community in-which the container resides and accessed through Lintel Trust. Once the community collects 2.5 tonnes of textiles.  £500 will be available to the community in the form of a grant. This would be allocated on a participatory budgeting basis.

Lintel Trust launched its recycling project back in May 2023 and had great success in Castlemilk as a result of the hard work of Cassiltoun Housing Association. The housing association raised over 2.5 tonnes of textiles.

This was the programme’s first 2.5 tonnes collected. As a result they can now apply for a grant of £500 to be spent improving lives and the environment in the Castlemilk area.

Textiles are the UK’s fastest growing household waste stream. By reusing and recycling textiles we can greatly reduce the amount we send to landfill and give unwanted items a new lease of life. Taking part in sustainability initiatives can help reduce your carbon footprint whilst supporting local community projects through raising funds.

The project has two main aims:

1. to encourage communities to reduce landfill by promoting skills in upcycling, re-using or recycling
2. to empower our communities to raise funds for improvements they want to see