We have some huge news ✌🏼

National news!

A Warp It case study was featured in a new government waste strategy document, titled ‘Our waste, our resources: A strategy for England’.

 

Along with other important waste issues, this means reuse of furniture and equipment is going to take more prominence in England. 

Topics: Policy, Warp It admin, Smart city

In part three of this series covering organisation and city wide sharing of surplus assets, we go now to the University of Glasgow. If you missed the earlier instalments, please read part one and part two.

Please watch the video below.

Topics: University, Case study, Smart city

If you are involved with resource efficiency, waste or sustainability within on business parks then this is for you.

 

Welcome. In this article we are going to answer one question that we have been asked many times in the past - ‘How can Warp It work on business parks?’.

Topics: Smart city

As far as we know, no other service allows organisations like schools, municipal councils, healthcare , central government, charities and private sector, to trade and reuse surplus assets with each other for free.

We provide an equipment and furniture reuse network where you can always find homes for your unwanted items and where you can always find 2nd hand supplies!

 

• 60% of the trades on the system take place within the same organisation. 

 

• The rest of the trades are inter agency- that is between organisations!

Topics: Charity, Smart city, Municipal council, Reuse program: Advanced

We’ve seen our partners do amazing things, such as win national awards, save tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment from going to landfill, and put together incredible reuse networks that encourage people to share.

In this case study, we are going to look at one network that has done all of these things, and more. We are talking about The Sunderland Partnership.

Topics: University, Charity, Smart city, Municipal council, Sustainable healthcare

Somebody has surplus assets and you need to find someone else who wants those same materials, at the same time, and in a nearby location... This article illustrates the approach we take at Warp It when rolling out a reuse system across a city or region.  We start by getting it right in one organisation. Who then prove the model to other main players. Who then demonstrate it can work multi agency.  And then it goes mainstream This is advanced reuse and we have some great case studies to show you. In this article we tell you how to do this in a low risk manner which ensures buy in a success!

Almost every major city has tried to introduce and implement a material exchange system of some sort, and generally they have failed. It’s often because they are asking too much to happen right from the outset.

Topics: Smart city, Municipal council, Reuse program: Advanced

All the reasons why reuse systems are low-hanging fruit for Smart cities

‘Smart City’ is a new buzzword in the world of sustainability, environment and urban planning, but why wouldn’t it be? It’s great to see nature and technology influence design in a way that they focus on working together for a better future. This whole sector is seeing massive growth and progression, with sub-sectors seeing huge opportunities to introduce new ideas and test out theories.

Topics: Smart city

Warp It are pleased to welcome Andrew Mouat from Glasgow City Council to dive deeper into GAS, the Glasgow Asset Share Group. This is not our first article on this subject, in fact, you can see more material on this innovative enterprise here. In this article we see some new perspectives, in particular:

Topics: University, Case study, Smart city, Municipal council

Warp It welcome Selina Woolcott from the University of Glasgow as she talks about the Glasgow Asset Share Group.

We opened up the floor to Selina and let her speak freely about her experience of using Warp It. It’s really interesting what she had to say. You can consider this an opinion piece from an expert Warp It member!

Topics: University, Case study, Smart city