Our story
Scrap Antics are stopping products that can be repurposed from ending up in landfill. We work with local schools to build awareness around waste and give them access to stationary supplies that would have once gone to landfill.
ScrapAntics is a community interest company founded by Sandy Greene and Siobhan Morison ten years ago. Since then we have grown to become a team of 22 staff and volunteers. We have now diverted over 100 tonnes of waste from landfill and incineration, back into the community as resources for play and creative projects!
At ScrapAntics, we are passionate about play and its enormous importance to effective life-skills learning and community cohesion and have created the exciting opportunity for 'Loose Parts Play'. We use loose parts - recycled resources that can be played with, built and broken in a multitude of ways - as the raw materials for children's play. Loose parts include tyres, wheels, wooden pallets, barrels, wooden blocks and planks and other unique objects!
Using these, participants are encouraged to be creative in their play, letting their imaginations run wild and turning neglected objects into valuable tools for learning and discovery. We have a warehouse with a huge array of resources that can be used both in and out of the classroom, suitable for all ages and abilities. We use these in our community play sessions, schools programme and family sessions.
We also have affordable artist studio spaces, home to a group of incredible artists working in a range of different media and disciplines. Rented on a monthly basis, these studios are next to the ScrapStore and include use of a communal space.
Our advice
Although it may be cheaper to throw away waste and send it to landfill, try and look at alternatives to repurpose products that can be recycled.
Our Changeprint
Our Changeprint can be measured by the items that are reused instead of needlessly thrown away; carbon emissions saved by not disposing in landfill or buying new; and by the way people think differently about loose parts and 'waste' as a valuable resource.
