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London’s reuse infrastructure is benefiting from an £8 million investment initiative, the London Reuse Network (LRN), which sees over 30 of the capital’s reuse charities linked.

London Community Resource Network (LCRN) has received the investment, which has been delivered by the London Waste and Recycling Board. The funding is being used to deliver an integrated pan-London reuse and repairs service – the largest of its kind in the world – and will create hundreds of jobs and training opportunities. It is hoped that by 2015, the network will be diverting over a million items from the waste stream.

The plan’s announcement was unveiled outside City Hall by Mayor Boris Johnson and Joanna Lumley, who are both advocates and proponents of reuse.

LCRN’s Chief Executive, Matthew Thomson, said: “We are ecstatic that we have been given the chance to enhance and develop community-based reuse in London. Thousands of Londoners are living in material poverty – LRN is going to make sure that those who are currently doing without are going to have a new lease on life. This is a definite win-win situation for London.”