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British Library
Community rehoming
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Project brief
The British Library commissioned JPA Furniture to run a pilot scheme to rehome redundant furniture resulting from building upgrades and renovations. This included 500 office and café furniture items.
- To improve the British Library’s community performance
- To integrate The British Library more fully with the community in a measure-able way
- To improve the British Library’s environmental performance
- Eliminate redundant furniture landfill & waste
- To achieve all this whilst saving money over traditional recycling services
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Key outcomes
- Value of savings through goods donated and re-used £40,000
- 15 Different community organisations received furniture donations
- Low scope 3 emissions – all organisations were local to the British library or JPA
- 19 tonnes (19,000kg) redundant furniture was diverted from landfill
- 440 unwanted furniture items were re-used, 60 items recycled – over 500 items eliminated from landfill