With ReCap, it depends on what you have.
For some schools, reuse means finding a new home for a desk, filing cabinet or office chair. In a lab, it might be a piece of specialized equipment or a case of glassware. The items are different, but the basic problem is the same: something that is no longer needed in one place may still be useful somewhere else.
At many schools, there’s a lot of surplus lab equipment and supplies available but most folks don’t know what’s available or how to access it.
At UAB Birmingham, they’ve changed that.
Their Green Marketplace (powered by ReCap) gives researchers a single place to find and request surplus items from across campus, making it easy to reuse what’s already there instead of defaulting to new purchases. Read More
We’re thrilled to share the launch of four new campus reuse platforms helping schools keep items circulating instead of heading to the landfill.
From lab equipment and office supplies to dorm essentials, these platforms make it easier than ever to trade, claim, and share items across campus, saving space, supporting sustainability, and promoting smart resource-sharing. Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills is making it easier than ever to reuse and save with the launch of Toro Surplus, powered by our ReCap software.
Faculty and staff can now quickly browse surplus items, claim what they need, or post things they no longer use. It’s a simple way to cut down on waste and avoid unnecessary purchases—all while supporting the university’s sustainability goals. Read More
The ‘age of the consumer’ dawned shortly after World War II. The depression was over; the war was won. Servicemen came back from overseas and began families. Happy times were here again and optimism reigned. Americans generated about 2.6 pounds of waste per person daily in 1960. By 2018, that had almost doubled to… Continue reading The Three R’s: Beyond Recycling in
Waste Management
Most people think of ‘recycling’ when they think of waste reduction; in reality, ‘reduce’ and ‘reuse’ are almost always better solutions to too much waste. But the idea of recycling caught on big time in the 1980’s and since then it has been ‘recycle, recycle, recycle’ instead of reduce, reuse, recycle. So what… Continue reading A Dummy’s Guide to the Circular Economy
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