WATER COOLER CHAT: Lessening Your Footprint With Refurbished Furniture
It sounds complicated, but refurbished furniture can make a difference as a consumer and a company with your buying power. Office Furniture NOW! has been reducing the amount of solid waste – including hazardous waste – that has been going to the landfill for years by selling refurbished office furniture. The office furniture business is a bulky business. A task chair takes up about 15 cubic feet of space; a desk suite takes up about 100 cubic feet. There is a huge amount of cardboard and packaging materials that arrive with each new desk or chair. Reuse and resale re-establishes the balance by giving usable furniture a new life and lessening the land ll impact. Office Furniture NOW! continues to do its part.
Pre-owned office furniture – including chairs, filing cabinets, desks, and cubicles can have a new life with minor repair and be kept out of the landfill. Reusing office furniture as is or buying refurbished office furniture (pre-owned office furniture that has been upgraded with new fabric, paint and/or accessories) is a financially, aesthetically and environmentally wise option.
Office Furniture NOW! is a resource for businesses seeking to sell the furniture they no longer need and a source for them to buy replacement furniture that a business may have outgrown. For example, when Whole Foods built its new corporate headquarters, we bought their used workstations, which were then resold into a new workplace life to 29 different companies.
