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Purchaser Enlightenment – Promotion of Reuse
Retread Tyre Trials
We are currently following on from a campaign by WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) aimed at encouraging the use of retread tyres on light commercial vehicles.
Tyres are energy and raw materials intensive products and a significant carbon footprint reduction can be achieved through the use of re-treaded items. See our report on The carbon footprint of retreaded versus new light commercial vehicle tyres.
Whilst retreads are widely employed within the UK applied to heavy goods vehicles and aircraft their use on other forms of transport is very limited.
The introduction of European manufacturing standards (ECE 108 for cars and ECE 109 for commercial vehicles) has meant that retread tyres are tested in an equivalent way to newly manufactured products and this has gone a long way to addressing previous negative consumer conceptions regarding their quality.
Consequently we are organising trials aimed at a comparison of the performance of new and retread tyres so that fleet managers interested in improving the environmental credentials of their operations can verify their quality in a controlled manner.
Remanufacture and reuse of office equipment
This resource aims to assist those looking to purchase goods from the office equipment sector by providing specifications for specific product categories and details of companies offering remanufactured or reused products and services.
Buying remanufactured and reused products is an easy way to reduce your businesses impact on the environment. Remanufactured products typically deliver significant savings, both for the environment and for your business, compared to an equivalent product made from recycled materials, and certainly versus a new product. All this is achieved without any compromise on product quality as remanufactured products are sold with a warranty to match that of a new product.
Reused products, typically those that have been repaired, rebuilt or refurbished, also offer the opportunity to utilise products that retain their embodied material and labour value. Again, this can give significant cost savings to the purchaser of these goods and divert quality goods from landfill.
We have found that many businesses, driven by a growing requirement to operate in a sustainable and responsible manner, want to purchase remanufactured and reused office products. The brochure linked to the right aims to help them to achieve and also includes directory of CRR members offering these services.