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We live in a world where resources are running out while waste is piling up. In order to meet these challenges, it has become imperative to reinvent our production and consumption methods to reduce our use of raw materials and generate less volume of waste. It is logic circular economy. Solutions like the reuse and reuse participate in the reduction of waste production because they allow extend service life some products. 

Focus on reuse

Reuse is characterized by the fact of selling or giving a product to a third party, who will give it a second life while retaining its primary use. The product does not pass through the status of “waste”. Reuse prevents the production of waste. This is a preferred solution because by reusing a product, less energy is used than in a recycling process.

For reuse to be environmentally efficient, it must be done:

• At the local level : proximity to places of consumption, washing and packaging
• Let it be massive : standardization to reduce the number of references (reusable packaging for example)
• Monitoring of good practices : requires to have a high rate of return - involvement of the actors who make the product return.

Beyond environmental impacts, reuse also has social and economic benefits : it promotes job creation, particularly with low-skilled people or people in integration, energizes the territories and makes it possible to achieve significantly reduce operating costs.

There are reuse players in different sectors, Takagreen presents them to you in this article.

Actors of industrial reuse

• Platform for the reuse of construction and construction materials: Cycleup, Materiauthèque, Backacia, For whata, Bobi reuse ; material work. Fr , Reuse booster , workmaterials,
• Web platform for the reuse of industrial co-products: Blue market :
• Industrial maintenance parts sales platform: Kheoosmarket
• Exchange platform between players in the resale and reuse of wood: rewood  
• Collaborative platform of second-hand rack players: abracadaracks

Actors of packaging reuse

Several vendors offer reusable containers to participate in the end of disposable and single-use packaging:

• Reusable and returnable containers for catering - collection and washing: Options solutions, Loop eat, now, Berny, Box the dish, The quick hitch, Uzaje
• Reusable and returnable parcels: Pop
• Cardboard, rolls of Kraft paper: Valroalp ; green cardboard

Actors in the reuse of furniture

• Collection and sale of second-hand and reconditioned office equipment: Ulysses 38 ; Tricycle, Co-recycling, Burocaz, smartoffice, bluedigo
• Tailor-made layout with recycled materials: Pimpyourwaste

Container reuse players

Shipping container reuse Tahiti container house

Actors of reuse in the arts and entertainment sector

Resale of costume and set material: Artstock

Actors in the barter of goods and services thanks to a fictitious currency

Le barter which allows a exchange of goods or services between two companies is also a process that is developing and which makes it possible to fight against waste and give objects a second life. In the case of the exchange of services, instead of buying an offer from a provider, a company can provide the latter with a service equivalent to the desired service. The company can then develop without spending money, but using his know-how. This form of collaborative commerce has the advantage of being free but can use a fictitious currency.

• Network for the exchange of services and goods between professionals:  Corp 
• Platform for the exchange of goods and services between employees or entities of a group: My barter 
• DIY library service, business object library: borrows it, 

As you will have understood, reuse makes it possible to prevent the production of waste by giving a second life to products, materials etc. before they are thrown away. It is a virtuous operation which contributes to the preservation of the environment and follows the principles of the circular economy.