The Reuse Hub for lighting merchandise was launched by Recolight on the finish of 2023. It’s a platform to facilitate the donation of surplus or used lighting merchandise and tools for a producer or finish person to request. There is no such thing as a different system prefer it within the UK to facilitate discovering a brand new life for lighting merchandise that haven’t reached the top of their life.
There are appreciable volumes of recent and used lighting merchandise which might be needlessly recycled once they might be reused. Some are in excellent situation earlier than elimination and due to this fact a whole lot of the worth and embedded carbon is misplaced if they’re recycled.
Many producers maintain unsold inventory; surplus new lighting taking on useful warehouse area Recolight wish to make it as simple as attainable for firms at hand over surplus and used merchandise to third-parties, who can put them to good use. Serving to to liberate useful warehouse area and permitting surplus inventory to have one other life.
Since its launch, over 100 product traces with a complete of over 16,000 particular person items have been added to the hub. One recipient benefiting from the inventory is Simon Fisher of F Mark, who says:
‘Using the Reuse Hub, F Mark has secured over 700 individual products for use on other projects and initiatives. It’s a unbelievable useful resource and we extremely advocate registering as, you by no means know, the subsequent product to be specified by you may be from Reuse Hub!’
The Reuse Hub is presently freed from cost for each donors and recipients. It features a template settlement between each events, that clearly limits the legal responsibility of donors, to de-risk the method. Any kind of organisation can join, together with producers, remanufacturers, specifiers, finish customers, charities, and extra.
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