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The Green Centre is a environmental project which provides information, advice and activities which help people in the community understand the impact of our actions on the planet.
The Green Centre has also added a second hand market after local people had kept asking to donate their second hand goods, this encourages locals to buy second hand instead of new by providing frequent deals on clothes, books and DVDs.
Income plus the revenues from recycling done at the centre covers all of the core costs, making The Green Centre an example of a community project creating their own income through sustainable methods.
The Green Centre offers facilities for collecting items that the council are unable to, such as tin foil, coffee pods, asthma inhalers, metals and mobile phones. Their popular Green A-Z provides information on what can be brought in for recycling and they even run a scheme to pick up items for recycling from the Brighton & Hove Council offices every week.