Our aim is to make reuse mainstream in organisations. 

We regularly talk to many people who are implementing a reuse system in their organisation and found that many are struggling with a whole host of issues. This ranges from securing buy-in and getting people on board with the project to communicating simple successes and achievements.

In this report we will address a variety of topics relating to the difficulties that can arise when trying to set up or grow a reuse project in any type of organisation. We will draw from a survey that we conducted of our customers and our bank of case studies.

This report will be of use to anyone looking to set up or improve a furniture reuse program or system, in particular:

• Surplus managers
• Procurement managers
• Sustainability managers
• Waste managers
• Service design managers
• Finance Directors
• Estates and Facilities Directors

Warp It’s founder Daniel O’Connor is here to talk from personal experience, through interesting anecdotes, about how you can provide sensible logic to your boss or director to get them interested in reuse. Daniel has recruited most of the UK’s universities, councils and regional NHS facilities onto our furniture reuse software, so you can trust that he has a lot of experience working with senior management and decision makers.

Implementing organisational change is difficult.

You cannot do it alone.

This blog post is about putting together the right people for your culture change project. 

Making sure that they understand the vision, are willing to commit to the plan, and are as dedicated as you are to making sure that the plan gets delivered.

Reuse is not given the priority it deserves

We’ve mentioned this notion before, that organisational sustainability and procurement strategies are lacking a focus on reuse. In this article we are going to explain some of the best practices for including reuse in strategic agendas, including how to build support for a reuse project and how to demonstrate its value.

We are pleased to be back with another fantastic interview, this time with Tytus Murphy, Sustainability Project Officer at King’s College London. Tytus’ role is part of the Estates & Facilities team, who have been using Warp It since April 2016. One reason we have been so keen to talk to Tytus is that King’s College London have been recording some fantastic reuse statistics.

Our blog post about getting senior commitment was so popular that we did a video of it!

Download the guide / crib sheet by hitting the button below!

Picture the scene...

There are ten people in a boardroom. Only two of them support your ideas for X Y or Z. You are questioning whether you have done everything you could do to tip the scales in your favour. Twenty minutes through your presentation you can feel the thick air of the room weighing down on you. You’ve lost the attention of your audience. You can feel the “no” coming.... view the video below and download our crib sheet to keep you on track and increase your chance of getting approval for your next project!

This will help anybody in selling sustainability to their board or other departments like procurement. We focus on reuse and waste disposal- with regards to developing a reuse program or furniture reuse project... but the techniques can be applied to any area!

Download the guide below or check out our blog post here...and you can also see how i bring the techniques to life in the video below using Reuse of Surplus Assets as an example.

How to get a team to sign up, head and heart

Persuasion and the power of a picture