We are so excited to announce that we have found a space to open our public center. We have been located in the basement of Turtlewings as a pop-shop since December and although it was nice to finally get the materials out of the boxes, it was still not nearly big enough. Now, we have nearly 200m2 in the new Turtlewings collaborative space in Schaerbeek only a block from the train station on Ave. Huart Hamoir 54. Big enough for all our materials, a shop to welcome you to pick up materials as well as workshop space. We will open officially in September 2012, but we will start to accept pre-registration in the next months.
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April 27th, 2012
We are so excited to have received a grant from Leefmilieu Brussel to place 10 vegetable gardens in 10 schools in 2012. Check out the project website here, which is in three languages. The project is only for schools and or organizations withing the Brussels region and must take place within this year.
What do you need to participate:
• group of children from 2 to 16 years. (min 6 to max 30)
• School or organization located in Brussels Capital Region
• a usable area of 2m2
• Pre-organized workshop time(s).
• 5 minutes/day for daily maintenance
• 30 minutes/week for general maintenance
The project will take place in 2012 :
- February / March – Introduction and planning
- April / May – Installation and Planting
- May / June – Maintenance, insects and disease.
- September / October – Wintergarden
Contact us to participate
Deadline for applications is February 17, 2012
(EN) jverbeelen@re-circle.org
tel 0475 35 55 04 (Julie Anne Verbeelen)
(NL-FR) pieter@re-circle.org
tel 0479 63 70 99 (Pieter Verbeelen)
January 19th, 2012
On December 10th we opened our pop up shop in the basement of Turtlewings Atelier. This was an exciting step for us as we try to raise more awareness and build momentum towards us getting our own premises. From now until July 2012 we will be able to welcome you to look around and even collect materials. We will do this through a “Pay per BAG” fee. This low fee will help cover the logistic costs we incur by picking up and sorting the materials. Our goal of this Pop Up Shop project is to build a community of members and volunteers, while we continue to look for our dream space.
REcircle Pop-Up Shop is located at:
Turtlewings Atelier 165 Rue Washington
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Opening Hours are:
Mondays,Thursdays and Fridays 14-17
Saturdays on request
December 10th, 2011
So, it has been a while since we posted any news about our project (It’s been three whole years to be exact). To recap a bit: three years ago we started the REcircle project with “Beta Boxes” to see what the response would be. It was incredibly overwhelming with regards to storing the huge amount of materials we received. In fact, we had such enthusiasm and generous offerings from manufactures, businesses, and retail shops that we simply could not keep up!
We realized right away it needed to be much bigger than we were able to make it. So, as they say with good wine, we let the idea sit for a while growing richer and better with each year that passed. We are now proud to announce that we have enough people behind and with us that we can now, not only pick up the project from where we left it, but actually take it much further! This week we signed the statutes to make REcircle into a non-profit organization and from there the sky’s the limit!
For the last three years we have been building a relationship with REMIDA in Reggio Emilia, Italy and we are now proud to announce that our center will be officially linked with them. As part of the REMIDA network we will first send several members of our team over to REMIDA in June 2011 to participate in an individual training just for our organization. From there we will be involved in conversations, collaborations and international projects related to building awareness around the value of industrial scrap.
We are also in the process of looking for a proper space to house our amazingly creative idea and of course the plethora of beautiful objects we plan to collect. We will keep you updated on our progress, but for now if you have any questions or ideas you think could be helpful, please contact us!
March 10th, 2011
We are proud to introduce you to the REcircle Creative REuse Center. REcircle is an initiative promoting the reuse of industrial waste materials for creative projects. We have been creating relationships with manufactures and collecting materials for nearly one year and we are ready to launch our first trial project called:
“The Beta Box”
In January 2008 we started with the “Beta Box” it introduced many schools and organizations to these amazing materials. Each box included a variety of clean, safe and open-ended materials. The benefits of these materials for children in a classroom setting are unlimited. If you would just like us to keep you updated on our activities send us your details through our contact form and we will add you to our mailing list.(read more about this project)
October 16th, 2007
