Public favours reusing clothing over recycling

Warp It are delighted to welcome Kirsty Hughes, Head of Operational Procurement at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

Universities have already saved £3 million by sharing resources such as furniture and other equipment through the Warp It online scheme. Now, we have announced we have set a target to bring savings of £1 million to the sector in 2017. In addition, waste arisings will fall by 100 tonnes, and 250 tonnes of CO2 will be slashed.

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. 

Are you thinking "How do I set up a reuse system"? Or "How do I set up a reuse system for free"?

In this session we talk to Mike Howroyd from the University of Leeds about the reuse program he developed to trade surplus assets. In my opinion Mike has been leading the way in the public sector around reuse for the last 10 years. Google thinks the same- If you are in the UK and you google "Reuse and University" you will see Mike gets the top spot ahead of any other University (and Warp It!). He was the first one I had seen set up their own internal online platform.

He has been on his own reuse journey and in this article we discuss how to set up a high performing reuse system.You can download the University of Leeds Case Study at the end of this article.

MIke set up his own internal system which ran for 5 years and was very successful he then saw some additional benefits of using Warp it and migrated over to our system in late 2017.

We are very lucky in that we get to talk to loads of change makers as we go about our daily business. In this 2 part blog article, we discuss the challenges of implementing sustainability initiatives in a lagre organisation.

Warp It’s Daniel O’Connor welcomes David Mazzocco from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, to talk about reuse and sustainability within a university environment.