On Today Radio, Marion Weydert of Luxembourg Guides and Scouts (LGS) spoke to Melissa Dalton on her show The Home Stretch about the scouts’ popup sale Reciklea- a popup shop meant specifically for both returning and first time university students.
This is the first time the event has been hosted, but the scouts have held many jumble sales before. Marion noticed at these sales that only valuable things were purchased. Ordinary pots and pans were always left over, probably because shoppers already owned these staples.
Thus the university-student-only sale (Reciklea) was born, as the scouts knew that young adults just starting out on their own for the first time would not have these basic necessities.
The shop provides second-hand home-goods like plates, silverware, cooking utensils, kitchen gadgets like coffee makers, and decorations. However, the sale does not offer clothes or large pieces of furniture. All items sold range from .50 cents to €5.00. Proceeds go to LGS and the maintenance of their training centres. Nevertheless, the goal is not to make money for the scouts, only to provide young people with essentials.
Marion says that while recycling is of course a good thing to do, products should be reused before they’re recycled. Throwing things away after one use wastes resources and money. When these products inevitably have to be re-bought, you could be contributing to unsafe working conditions for people in factories abroad as they try to meet consumer demand.
Make sure to bring shopping bags and cash as Reciklea does not accept cards. Reciklea is no longer taking donations.
The event will be hosted from this Friday 7 July through to Sunday 9 July, between 1:30 pm and 7:00 pm at the LGS headquarters, Géisserei,5, rue Munchen-Tesch 2173 Luxembourg.
If a child is interested in joining the scouts, parents should visit their website by clicking here. Their are fifty-seven chapters to choose from. The majority of the groups speak Luxembourgish, French, German, and English, and there is also one Portuguese language group and one Arabic language group.
Adults with no connection to the scouts can volunteer. Of course, to be a scout leader, you will need to attend training sessions.
To listen to the whole conversation click here, or listen via the player below.
