It’s time to empty our "drawers of doom"

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

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

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