TY - THES ID - 138381622 TI - On Reuse Centres : One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Treasure. PY - 2004 PB - Geel Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen. Campus HIK DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138381622 AB - In my final paper I talk about three reuse centres: one in Belgium, named "De Kringwinkel" and two in Great-Britain, namely Create-UK and Recycle-It!. You can give all your discarded but still usable goods to a reuse centre; you can bring them yourself, or an employee of the reuse centre collects them from your house. All goods are sorted, disinfected and if necessary repaired. They are then offered for sale in the shop where you can buy them at 10% to 20% of their original price. To carry out all these jobs, a reuse centre has to employ many persons. Reuse shops are no ordinary second-hand shops. A reuse centre works towards three different goals. First of all they pay attention to the environment as they give reusable goods a new destination in order to make the waste heap smaller. Secondly, they contribute to social employment as they offer a job to people who have difficulties finding a job. And thirdly, they sell decent and original second-hand goods at low prices. This means that ER -