sustainability according to Alvero
In many offices, furniture is gathering dust. While an office down the road is looking for new furniture. Alvero furniture has multiple lives and is used efficiently, so less needs to be produced. With systematic maintenance, we also ensure that our items last longer. Discover the sustainable effect of renting. For your organization, too.
Renting is essentially sustainable
Why should you own something that has limited use? Rental products are used where they are needed and used by multiple parties. This reduces the demand for new stuff and prevents overproduction. Renting is choosing a more sustainable solution.
A big sustainable benefit of renting is redeployment. Whether you knock on Alvero's door or somewhere else, rent furniture or other products. Once you no longer need a product yourself, another renter can start using it. Rental products are automatically given multiple lives.
Our CO2 report
In order to make our own bredrive operations more sustainable, we have started to map our emissions. Our CO2 report for 2023 shows where Alvero stands, the emission reductions we have achieved and our goals for the future. Understanding our own emissions is an important step toward our dream: to make the workplace fully circular.
The LCA of a rented office chair: over 30% less emissions
How much more sustainable is renting compared to buying? We commissioned a life cycle analysis (LCA) of our Xenium office chair Alvero owns 2,000 of these chairs, which are used by tenants nationwide. The analysis compares the environmental impact of this chair when you buy it to when you rent it. What does it show? When you rent a Xenium office chair, there is 31.3% less CO2 emissions than when you buy it.
What does CSRD mean for your organization?
The European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires companies to report their carbon emissions. Although CSRD is aimed primarily at large companies, there are implications for smaller companies as well. Reporting requirements along the value chain may mean that even as an SME you will have to provide concrete figures in the future. Keep in mind changes in prices, products, services or practices of other companies in your chain. These will be implemented to comply with the CSRD.
Sustainably dealing with people
A pleasant and safe working environment is good for everyone who makes Alvero possible. This is why we make sustainable investments in people inside and outside our company. Alvero is the proud holder of the ISO 9001 certificate and the VCA certificate. We are a partner of MVO Nederland, a sustainable network of companies that, among other things, promotes the general interests of people in and around the workplace.
And finally, we are a UNICEF Business Buddie. A select group of Dutch entrepreneurs are part of this program. As a UNICEF Business Buddie, Alvero contributes to better living conditions for children around the world. So that their future will also look better.
The world doesn't revolve around Alvero
We grew up with sustainability. Long before the turn of the century, Alvero has believed in using instead of owning. We hold this sustainable thought in all our actions. When your organization partners with Alvero, you reap the benefits of this way of working. Join us in stepping towards a sustainable future and make your work environment more circular. Sustainability plays an increasingly important role within organizations, and we think that is only natural.
Also starting your transition to a sustainable work environment?
Start with a phone call to Ardaan. Email is also possible. Ardaan guides companies in a sustainable transition.
