Scrapstore
What’s a Scrapstore? It's an Aladdin's Cave!
Take a peek into the scrapstore
Grab a shopping trolley and rummage around our 5000 sq ft warehouse crammed with the most exciting and unusual materials you will ever see!
Every day businesses dispose of 1000s of tons of material to landfill sites all over the UK. Some of it has potential for re-use in creative activities. Often the individuals responsible for dumping the material are painfully aware of that potential. They may have children in cash strapped play groups and schools, and so they take little bits home for their own use and can easily see that friends and relations could also benefit from access to those materials, and that’s where we come in. We can collect and redistribute their waste so that others can benefit from it.
Scrapstores are not providers of a second rate imitation of the high street. Scrapstore materials are inspirational!
Scrapstores transform people’s ways of working. Instead of making a plan, writing a shopping list and then going and getting the stuff , with Scrapstores you start by going to the Scrapstore and cruising around until something leaps out at you and the ideas come last of all. This is a more sustainable approach to life, the environment and everything. The older generation learnt through wartime rationing to make things last and to adapt themselves to their resources. In the wealthy West, resourcefulness has given way to resource acquisition. Knowing where to buy it has replaced knowing how to make it. Re-Create bucks that trend.
At the moment we collect from over 50 firms all around South Wales and swap regularly with other scrapstores around Britain. The materials are re-used by over 90,000 children and young people through our network of member groups (over 2000).
We are proud to be saving you money and proud to be sustainable. We hope that you will be proud to be a member and that you’ll tell your friends too.
If you would like to be kept informed of new scrap as it arrives in store please send us your email address
Alternatively if you would like to donate some items please do not hesitate to contact us
