a sustainable work environment
Circular thinking is becoming more and more part of our daily lives. How do you put this into practice in the design of your work environment? Alvero offers numerous solutions that fit within a circular business.
How do you already comply with circular requirements?
Does your organization have ambitions for a circular work environment or are there already hard requirements to meet? And where should you start or take the next step? Let's look together at how we can design your work environment to contribute to these circular business goals. With concrete steps that your organization can take. In the short and long term. From furniture passports to upcycling, and by thinking from use instead of ownership.
Renting is circular for several reasons. It starts with the basics: you use furniture for as long as you need it instead of buying stuff you don't need half the time. Alvero retains ownership of the furniture and at the end of a rental period gives it a new life. You use stuff that gets maximum use a multiple life cycles.
Companies working circularly
These organizations are already working circularly with the help of Alvero.
Making your work environment circular?
Renting is a good start. After all, you're using furniture without waste. Contact Sandra to see what other circular steps you can take.
Modular products that you keep using
The more versatile a product is, the less waste there is. That's why we believe in modular systems. A modular system consists of individual components that can take on different forms. Think for example of Pixel, the wooden cubes that you transform from workstations to a scrum room with just a few actions. Or partition wall. Or presentation space. Pixel, and numerous other modular systems, contribute to your circular work environment. After all, you no longer need 5 different, separate pieces of furniture. One product is all you need.
Products with a 2nd life
Upcycling, cradle to cradle or simply recycled? You have untold numbers of terms for it. We're talking about products that have lived another life in a previous existence. Take the UBU chair, for example. 10 years ago, this chair was around someone's legs, and now you can sit on it. This chair, made from recycled Jeans, is just one of many products with a 2nd life in our range. For example, many of our products are also equipped with AKOpanel. In all shapes and sizes, we use this material which consists of recycled PET bottles.
Prevent waste with Alvero Furniture Management
Using your existing furniture as much as possible prevents you from bringing in unnecessary extra stuff. Alvero Furniture Management is a system that allows you to see at any time what you have in your home, where it is and what condition it is in. It often turns out that you can facilitate temporary extra workstations yourself. By shifting instead of investing.
Easily scale up and scale down with long-term rent
In addition to the products you use (modular or recycled products) and using a furniture management system, long-term rent is a 4th, and perhaps the most important, pillar in a circular work environment. Long-term rental ensures that you never have too much furniture in use. Simply scale your furniture quantity up or down. Never more unused furniture. And that means no wasted resources either.
Products with the necessary certificates
We attach great importance to the right certificates. And especially the sustainability certificates. With every brand we add to our rental fleet, we check the certificates. Are recycled products used? Is the steel recycled? Does the wood carry FSC certification? Products without certificates (from China, for example) don't come into our fleet. This allows us to guarantee not only the quality of our products, but also their sustainability.
Alvero has been a part of the circular economy since its inception.
Circular thinking is in our DNA. Ever since Alvero was founded, we have been a part of the circular economy. Even then we believed in using instead of owning, in the short and long term. Our ambition is to make the office furnishing category completely circular. We ensure the preservation and value of materials by purchasing as little new furniture as possible. For example, the tops of our desks fit on different frames. Upgrading to a sit/stand desk does not mean that everything has to be renewed. When only new furniture can fill a need, we buy with responsibility for the future.
