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 isn’t 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 latest and used lighting merchandise which are needlessly recycled once they could possibly be reused. Some are in excellent situation earlier than elimination and subsequently plenty of the worth and embedded carbon is misplaced if they’re recycled.
Many producers maintain unsold inventory; surplus new lighting taking on worthwhile warehouse area Recolight wish to make it as simple as potential for firms handy over surplus and used merchandise to third-parties, who can put them to good use. Serving to to liberate worthwhile 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 models have been added to the hub. One recipient profiting 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 incredible useful resource and we extremely advocate registering as, you by no means know, the following product to be specified by you would be from Reuse Hub!’
The Reuse Hub is at the moment 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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