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We are joined by Paul Graham, Utilities, Waste and Sustainability Manager at Kingston Hospital. Paul will be discussing:

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

The University of Salford’s Environmental Sustainability Officer, Rebecca Bennett, is here to walk us through their ‘Choose to reUSe’ scheme.

In this piece, you are going to learn about:

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, University, Case study

This article is all about a problem.

The problem is how to maximise the opportunity that building decommissions, or decants, present, especially when it comes to the reuse of surplus assets.

The challenge is that there are so many critical, and often conflicting deadlines, that the reuse of surplus assets is often left to the last minute. By this time, it is usually too late to find new owners for those assets!

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Facilities management, Building Clearance

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

This article is all about how to maximise the opportunity that building decommissions, or decants, present when it comes to the reuse of surplus assets.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Facilities management, Easy wins, Building Clearance

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

When an old computer breaks, it seems an almost natural response to follow the standard waste disposal policy and think ‘ah, it’s outdated, I might as well send it to the dump and buy a new one’. However, the old phrase ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ is very applicable in this article. What if your broken computer is only broken temporarily, and that whilst you go and buy a new one, it can be repaired?

This blog post is about taking that step beyond reuse of surplus assets and moving into repair and refurbishment- to reduce procurement demand by extending the life span of products.

Topics: Refurb Repair Upcycle, Case study, Facilities management