Public favours reusing clothing over recycling

Why do we publish our customer happiness ratings publicly?

Topics: Increasing participation

In this article we talk about how incentives increase participation in your surplus assets or furniture reuse program. We also give you a free communications template to download at the end.

Why read this article?

• Increase participation in your reuse program
• Create a buzz around your project. 
• Use your time effectively with a low time input and high impact activity

Topics: Increasing participation

This blog post is about making cultural change in large organisations. We discuss one particular technique which is used all over the world, but which is seldom followed in organisations.  This can be applied to any behaviour change project and we use the example of a surplus asset reuse program. 

Topics: Increasing participation, Easy wins

In this interview we talk to John Bailey, Head of Sustainability at the University of London about a project which has caused a buzz across the campus.

John talks about delivering a bee-keeping project which he has used as a way to engage on sustainability. John also talks about getting things done in large, sometimes bureaucratic, organisations. In particular: John talks about the importance of gettting backing for a project before you pitch your idea to a committee. The video is below followed by extracts of the transcript. 

Topics: University, Case study, Increasing participation

Persuasion and the power of a picture

Topics: Buy in, Reuse program: Planning stage, Increasing participation

Spring is upon us! Open up the windows, let the cool breeze in and feel the sun on your skin. It’s nice, right? Do you know what else is nice? Having a working space and environment that is clean and tidy and makes you super happy to be at work!

Topics: Campaigns, Increasing participation

Warp It’s founder, Daniel O’Connor, used to be the Waste Manager at Newcastle University. Back in 2008, they were rolling out their first comprehensive recycling scheme. He was going out, putting down bins, putting on stickers and talking to people, as well as hosting clinics. He was there dropping the bins off in the morning just because he wanted to assist. He wanted the project to work, and he knew that he was facing quite a bit of reluctance. Plus, he was new in the role, and he really wanted to make a big impact, so he really put his heart and soul into it.

Topics: Increasing participation

Work smart not hard!

Topics: Increasing participation, Easy wins, Reuse program: Pre Launch

 

This is a very useful guide to running a poster competition within your organisation. We are using a reuse campaign as an example but this following technique could be applied to any poster campaign.  There's an important story behind this. Zero Waste Scotland are a very admirable organisation that are pushing the Circular Economy issue in Scotland. For many objective onlookers, Scotland has the best, biggest and most meaningful uptake of circular economy practises. The organisations there are open to Circular Economy and it goes well beyond the sustainability people; their openness goes into finance, into procurement and much further.

Topics: Campaigns, Increasing participation