We get asked regularly by our members why we collect data on so many different metrics, what we do with that data, and how they should then use that data to their advantage?

In this guide, we will look at these questions and try to help you see the bigger picture of reuse data, and how it is more valuable than simply knowing how many items have been traded and to whom.

Every so often Warp It customers want to send items straight to charities, and other third parties.

Here's a guide to show you how to do this.

Within the admin settings panel, you'll find ‘Control Partners’.

This section will enable admins to allow items to be immediately assigned to third parties.

Log in as admin> settings> control partners.

See below.

Warp It users sometimes need to get agreements from members when adding or claiming certain items associated with specific risks. 

For example, there may be certain risks around electricals, medical and clinical equipment, or even some types of furniture.

Members need to know about these risks or agree to statements around these risks.

If you want to plant some trees then this is for you.....

Extending the lifespan of products by reuse and repair reduces manufacturing and transport and thus avoids carbon emissions.

We track carbon savings on our system and express this as the theoretical "number of trees planted" equivalent.

We would actually like to express this more visibly and actually plant the number of trees in real life! 

In this article we make a proposal to plant trees with our customers and their community. 

We are seeking partners to take part in a tree planting project where we actually plant the number of trees equivalent to the carbon your organisation has saved by reusing items on Warp It.

Our customers have exceeded expectations! As of now customers have saved £2.7million worth of furniture and equipment and donated it to charities all over the country!! 

Yes they have given furniture and equipment to the value of £2.7million to all the third sector. 

Here is how operators of national operations can benefit from our services and add value to their internal staff and various sites.

What is Warp It?

Our way of doing things is reaching its limits. The take-make-waste system no longer works for industry, people or our environment.

It’s time to shift the system by designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems.

Known as the circular economy, it's a system based on the idea that what is made can be used, reused, recycled and remade for use once again with as little waste as possible.

Shifting the system involves everyone and everything: businesses, governments, and individuals; our cities, our products, and our jobs. 

The linear economy must change.

We have to transform all the elements of the take-make-waste system: how we manage resources, how we make and use products, what we do with the materials afterwards and how we power it all.

Only then can we create a thriving economy that can benefit everyone within the limits of our planet.

There's a world of opportunity to rethink and redesign the way we make stuff.

Here are our tips and tools to help break the linear economy, learn about the circular economy and the role you can play in accelerating the necessary shift.

We are joined today by Sam Kirby-Bray, the Sustainability Commissioning Officer at Shropshire Council. Sam is their Warp It lead, and handles a number of other important responsibilities in his role. We’re keen to talk to him about their reuse project, which launched to all staff in March 2019.