by Rype Office team | Mar 7, 2025 | Circularity, Sustainability
What furniture should you avoid when designing an office? We asked our remanufacturing experts and were shocked at how common these models are. If any of these are in your buying standards or schedules, then change them to save money and the environment. Concave...
by Rype Office team | Aug 10, 2024 | Circularity
The Circular Economy is transforming our world. Here is why… The Circular Economy includes reuse, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing and recycling. These approaches offer a wide range of benefits over the take-make-waste linear economy that uses virgin...
by Rype Office team | Jul 14, 2024 | Design inspiration
Does your organisation really need an office? Yes it does, for five reasons. Working from home is popular for good reason – a stroll from the kitchen to the spare room can be much more appealing than a long, expensive, delayed commute to work in a dull crowded...
by Rype Office team | May 17, 2024 | Saving money, Sustainability
Is decarbonisation too slow in your organisation? If you don’t already have renewable energy, LEDs, heat pumps, Circular Economy fit-outs, EVs and the latest video-conferencing to reduce staff travel, then you are moving too slowly, missing out on substantial carbon...
by Rype Office team | May 6, 2024 | Circularity, Saving money
Having launched its free-to-use Second Life Furniture mark in 2023, the Office Furniture Remanufacturing Association has reported the results for the first 11 projects using the mark, which ranged from 2,000ft2 to 100,000ft2 gross internal area. All projects achieved...
by Rype Office team | Apr 12, 2024 | Sustainability
Scope 1 emissions (from your gas boilers and vehicles) are expensive to solve. Switching to heat pumps and electric vehicles costs a lot now, but over time, with scale production, these will become economical. Scope 2 emissions are from the electricity that you use....
by Rype Office team | Feb 15, 2024 | Sustainability
Rype has refreshed its calculations comparing the carbon emissions of its typical remanufactured furniture with new. The team examined a task chair, desk and meeting chair – Rype’s most popular products. All three showed greenhouse gas emissions savings of over 80%...
by Rype Office team | Jan 11, 2024 | Circularity, Sustainability
Taking action in 2024 2024 is an important year for carbon emissions reduction action because after this year, we have just five years left to the 2030 Net Zero Carbon target of 50% reduction in carbon emissions, per the Science Based Targets Initiative’s standard to...
by Rype Office team | Nov 13, 2022 | Circularity, Saving money, Sustainability
How will products change as carbon emissions are reduced? This discussion illustrates how the Circular Economy will challenge the Linear Economy, using the example of the office furniture sector. Carbon Emissions Reduction Targets Organisations committed to Net Zero...
by Rype Office team | Oct 15, 2022 | Circularity, Sustainability
Seven steps is all you need Net Zero Carbon means balancing the carbon emissions produced and taken out of the atmosphere. To enable organisations to align their climate actions to a global warming increase of 1.5°C, in October 2021 the Science Based Targets...
by Rype Office team | Jun 22, 2022 | Sustainability
What is Net Zero Carbon all about? Net Zero carbon means achieving an overall balance between emissions produced and emissions taken out of the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), limiting global temperature warming to 1.5°C...
by Rype Office team | Apr 5, 2022 | Circularity, Most popular, Sustainability
We are entering a new era The Ellen MacArthur Foundation describes the Circular Economy as “a systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution” based on three basic principles: eliminate waste,...
by Rype Office team | Mar 30, 2022 | Circularity, Most popular, Sustainability
Back in July 2019 we met with Kresse Wesling co-founder of Elvis & Kresse who rescues raw materials which would otherwise go to landfill, and transforms them into beautiful, aspirational bags, accessories and homeware. We caught up with Kresse again (virtually of...
by Rype Office team | Jul 29, 2021 | Health & wellness
While office or home working suit some staff, others are embracing the new Work Near Home (WNH) model, which is a clever hybrid combining the best of office and home working. The Problems with Offices In the UK, the average commute costs £800 per year and if you work...
by Rype Office team | Apr 22, 2021 | Circularity, Sustainability
Paint360 is an award-winning social enterprise producing recycled paint with low embodied carbon emissions. So naturally we wanted to know more. What does Paint360 do? We are developing a model to impact on the estimated 55 million litres of waste paint generated in...
by Rype Office team | Dec 8, 2020 | Circularity
Blast Studio is our latest Circularity Champion. They are a team with a big ambition: to create urban ecosystems, in which waste is transformed into beautiful sustainable objects using living organisms. They shared their ethos and ambitions: How did you meet and...
by Rype Office team | Nov 2, 2020 | Health & wellness, Sustainability
Building certifications are increasingly being used to improve the sustainability of the construction industry and the built environment. BREEAM, LEED, WELL and SKA are examples. For furniture, most providers charge an eye-watering premium to deliver a building...
by Rype Office team | Jul 20, 2020 | Sustainability
Here is how you can make a difference in your own office … Increased scientific concern about catastrophic climate change has seen children marching on the streets, UK Parliament declaring a climate emergency, Extinction Rebellion protests and company Boards...
by Rype Office team | Jun 16, 2020 | Circularity, Design inspiration, Sustainability
Tom Gyr is a designer and craftsman who makes beautiful calligraphy pens from re-purposed or sustainable materials. He is our latest Circularity Champion and he spoke to us about building a less throwaway culture and sustainable innovation. Describe Tom’s Studio in 20...
by Rype Office team | May 21, 2020 | Circularity, Sustainability
Circularity Champion Dr Alasdair Bremner is one of the founders of Alusid, who makes beautiful sustainable surfaces from recycled materials. A materials expert, he is also a yogi and a fantastic thinker on the Circular Economy. We chatted to him about sustainable...
