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 consumer to request. There isn’t any different system prefer it within the UK to facilitate discovering a brand new life for lighting merchandise that haven’t reached the tip of their life.
There are appreciable volumes of recent and used lighting merchandise which can be needlessly recycled after they could possibly be reused. Some are in superb situation earlier than elimination and due to this fact lots of the worth and embedded carbon is misplaced if they’re recycled.
Many producers maintain unsold inventory; surplus new lighting taking over helpful warehouse area Recolight wish to make it as straightforward as doable for firms handy over surplus and used merchandise to third-parties, who can put them to good use. Serving to to unencumber helpful warehouse area and permitting surplus inventory to have one other life.
Since its launch, over 100 product strains 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:
‘Utilizing the Reuse Hub, F Mark has secured over 700 particular person merchandise to be used on different initiatives and initiatives. It’s a incredible useful resource and we extremely suggest registering as, you by no means know, the following product to be specified by you could possibly 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 enroll, together with producers, remanufacturers, specifiers, finish customers, charities, and extra.
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