The Community Reuse Network  is the all Island representative body for community based reuse, recycling and waste prevention organisations.

What we do

• Promote re-use at national level
• Direct re-use and preparing for re-use
• Campaign for inclusion at national level
• Best practice guidance and support
• Waste prevention
• Waste diversion from landfill
• Promotion, networking and events

About Re-use and Preparing for Re-use

Prevention is the highest point in the hierarchy or recommended responses to waste issues and includes the re-use of products after elimination and minimisation.

In the new EU Waste Framework Directive, “reuse” means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they are conceived.

“Preparing for reuse” means checking, cleaning or repairing recovery operations, by which products or components of products that have become waste are prepared so that they well be re-used without any other pre-processing.

CRN members are involved in both direct reuse and preapring for reuse activities.