University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

Buying pre-loved items is becoming increasingly popular, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and a better awareness of its environmental benefits.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Warp It admin, Events, Support

Laboratories often produce vast amounts of waste, due to frequent personnel turnover, lab moves, and changing research needs. 

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Warp It admin, Events, Support

Storage space is at a premium becoming increasingly scarce, especially as many organisations reimagine and reshape their spaces as they move towards remote or hybrid ways of working.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Warp It admin, Events, Support

The Warp It ambition to make reuse and the circular economy the norm is coming to fruition as our community make huge strides in reducing waste and carbon by reusing and redistributing furniture, equipment, stationery, and countless other items.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Warp It admin, Events, Support

Moving away from the ‘Take-Make-Dispose’ linear economic model and adopting a circular economy is a recognised and respected solution to address global challenges like the climate crisis and realise a resilient, net-zero world.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Warp It admin, Events, Support

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

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, NHS, Sustainable healthcare

Sally Attwood and Amanda Davies from Public Health Wales kindly volunteered to share their experiences for this interview. 

In this article we will be asking Sally and Amanda about a huge relocation project they’ve managed recently, where they maximised the reuse and refurbishment of office furniture, and how they’ve managed to:

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Sustainable healthcare

This blog post is about how a large organisation is using Warp It to reuse and cascade their IT assets throughout the organisaition , as well as donating externally- to maximise the value of the assets.

Warp It have built relationships with so many of our wonderful customers, none less so than Alan Peddie, who manages the Warp It portal at the University of Edinburgh. We invited Alan to speak frankly about his experience of using Warp It and how it has:

• Redistrinbuting IT assets internally
• Facilitated donation of assets to the charity sector

• Benefited the IT department

• Encouraged refurbishment as well as reuse

• Helped over 500 computers get refurbished instead of recycled externally

• Given Alan a very unique superhero-style nickname!

 

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, University, Case study

Yes, organisations can even upcycle.

Within organisation we are often to stuck in our ways to come up with innovative and new uses for our waste streams. In this article we look at what one healthcare organisation is doing. We also give you access to a free download to use to help you think more innovatively about your problem waste stream items and start to approach zero waste.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, NHS, Case study, Sustainable healthcare