Reuse is the perfect opportunity to help your staff get that "Ahhh I've got a clear and tidy space" feeling

We want to make it easier for you to increase staff engagement on your reuse program.

In the run up to Spring, it’s the perfect time of year to deliver some sort of declutter campaign.

We have done spring clear out campaigns in the past. Some of our customers have delivered "Dump the Junk" campaigns also- so we thought we would produce some support materials. 

Our Dump The Junk campaign support materials include everything you need to deliver the campaign in an effective and exciting way.

It’ll help you cut through the other noise on your estate and get your staff onboard the reuse journey while thoroughly enjoying clearing their space!

You are going to need:

• 5 minutes to read this article
• 15 minutes to digest the downloads including step by step action plan, templates and comms materials
• 4-5 hours to get everything ready and launched

What are you waiting for? Get started now and see why a Dump the Junk campaign is the perfect opportunity to increase the reuse in your organisation!

By the way: 

If you think that "Dump the Junk" could have some negative connotations for a reuse/ declutter campaign, remember we have some other campaigns available. 

• Declutter
• Spring Clean

Access the campaign materials below and get ready to reap the rewards!

In this article we welcome Rachael Moses, Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, to talk about her recent triumph and award in the field of sustainability.

Rachael is very accomplished in her field and will shed some light on

Warp It welcomes back Clare Topping from Northampton General Hospital to talk about

• challenges,
• getting people to think differently, 
• repair and reuse,
• and how refurbishing assets has proved beneficial at their site.

In this article you are going to learn about

We assume you are here because you want to get reuse embedded into your organisation.

We’ve seen our partners do amazing things, such as win national awards, save tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment from going to landfill, and put together incredible reuse networks that encourage people to share.

In this case study, we are going to look at one network that has done all of these things, and more. We are talking about The Sunderland Partnership.

Warp It are pleased to welcome Sustainable Development Project Officer Julie McPhee from Stirling Council in Scotland to talk about:

• Signing up to Warp It after meeting at a conference
• Making large donations to charities
• Collaboarating with the building clearance team
• The liberating feeling of having items claimed

Hi Julie, thanks for giving up your time to speak with us for the benefit of our readers. Why did you commission Warp It? What led to the decision?

We were looking for a solution for our unwanted furniture and surplus assets. One of our elected members had been looking out of the window and saw a bookcase sitting in the rain and decided to pursue a change. In the past, everything we did with reuse was ad hoc, so there might have been a frantic phone call to the Salvation Army to see if they wanted something. Invariably, things were no use to them, no use to us, and had be disposed of, so things would either go off to the tip, or if they were fortunate, they’d be recycled. Shortly after this, I was at a conference and I heard you (Daniel O’Connor) talking about Warp It. It sounded like the solution we needed, and easy to set up, so that’s how it all kicked off.

It’s great that you saw the problem, sought a solution and fate brought us together! So at this point, we’ve spent some time getting you set up, so can you tell us how your building clearances have improved?

So far we’ve had two main buildings be decommissioned and put on the market for new tenants. They’re not going to be used by the council anymore. So, we have had a lot of surplus furniture that ordinarily we wouldn’t have been able to find a home for and would have been hard to get rid of, but using Warp It has been a great outlet and hasn’t caused us any hassle. The furniture’s there, we list it on the online reuse portal and somebody comes to pick it up. In the past, it would have been a logistical nightmare trying to get an item to people. Now, all the systems are in place to make things run smoothly.

Fantastic to hear! What’s even better is that you’ve only been on the system a short time, but you’re already in the top 10 for donating assets to charity!

We’ve actually just used this as a good news story. Our environment committee were slightly critical that we weren’t publicising our good work well enough. The fact that we made it into the top 10 was ripe for a good news story, so we turned it into different formats and it’s on the ticker tape on our website, as well as in a council-wide email saying ‘Congratulations, we’re in the top 10!’. We’ve added it to the member’s bulletin for next week, so they’ll find the news in their pigeon holes too. We are learning as we go along, and yesterday’s email blast lead me to have 14 new member requests this morning!

This week we welcome Luke Champion from 2Gether NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health and learning disability service for the people of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

He’s here to talk to us about moving over to Warp It and why it helped. In this article you will learn about: