Office Furniture Recycling

According to Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP), it is estimated that 1.2 million office desks and 1.8 million office chairs end up in land fill every year, making it the most common way to dispose of old or unwanted furniture.

re.think Furniture Recycling is another major part of the first pillar to the re.think programme, providing access to a nationwide collection and recycling service for our customers as a simple, sustainable solution for the disposal of old or unwanted furniture. Collections can be made independently, or during delivery of new furniture.

Through this scheme, any furniture we collect is returned to our re.think depot and is stripped down, segregated, and fully recycled – avoiding landfill. With re.think, we can offer a fantastic, sustainable furniture disposal solution at a fraction of the cost usually associated with waste management.

For efficient recycling, we dismantle each product and segregate the materials as follows:

 

	Wood Board types are segregated and recycled in various ways. Much of the material here goes off-site to large biomass burners which generate green energy, while some is used within our own on-site biomass burner to generate heat for our factories.
	Metal There are two main metals used in office furniture: steel and aluminium. These materials are separated and can be recycled many times over.
	Plastics Using the Plastics Industry Association’s coding system, in accordance with ISO11469:2016, we can easily identify the various plastics. These categories allow clearer segregation for improved recyclability. Each of these plastics are converted to pellets and can be re-used to produce new products.
	Fabric Fabric is segregated into Vinyl, Synthetic and Wool. Wool is returned to our fabric supplier on a closed loop recycle chain. Vinyl and Synthetics are segregated and bailed to be recycled and re-processed.
	Foam Any foam that can be removed from the product is returned to our foam supplier on a closed loop recycle chain, and is put back into the manufacturing process. As with fabric, any foam that cannot be removed is segregated and disposed of via a regulated supplier.

We can RECYCLE your old OFFICE FURNITURE

OfficeStar are now part of the re.think Furniture Recycling Scheme.

This means that we can now offer a full furniture recycling service for all of your old office furniture. For any order of new furniture

you place we will recycle any old or unwanted furniture, even if you didnt buy it from us.

Each piece of furniture is taken to the re.think depot and broken down into its core components.

These are then seperated into five groups; wood, plastics, metals, fabric and foam.

Each group is then individually sorted into any sub groups to maximise their recyclability.

Where possible, materials are then sent off to be processed back into raw materials, then re-sed in the manufacturing of new products.

We can arrange the collection of any piece of office furniture, taking the hassle out of having to dispose of old or

broken pieces and ultimately helping you to reduce your carbon footprint.

For more information, please contact one of our knowledgeable team.

Lets make recycling easy together

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