Warp It home page for Glasgow Life

Established in 2007 as a Charity set up for the benefit of the people of Glasgow, the reason we exist is because we believe that everyone deserves a great Glasgow life.

Our strategic priorities are to:

· Advance culture and sport in the city

· Improve mental and physical wellbeing of local communities

· Support the vibrant city economy

· Re-invest income to achieve our vision

Our vision, mission and purpose are only meaningful if they are delivered sustainably.

Although we have been working to identify and reduce the negative environmental impacts of our business, we recognise that we need to significantly increase our efforts and further mainstream and embed sustainability across all our parts of our charity.

Our Sustainability Workstream is a key driver for this change which has committed members taking extra responsibility for creating, managing and embeding many sustainability initiaitives across our charity.

The Glasgow Life Warp It portal is one of these as we share the purpose of getting the best value out of waste resources from large organisations, by finding owners for items that would otherwise have to be disposed of.

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CO2 (KG) Saved

Cars Off The Road

Waste Avoided (KG)

Trees Equivalent

Total Savings (£)

CO2e (KG) saved

Carbon and other Greenhouse Gases are given off in the manufacture of products. Every item transferred using WARPit saves on carbon emissions because a new item does not have to be manufactured, transported and purchased. Using standard conversion factors we are able to work out the estimated carbon dioxide equivalent. The conversion factors are calculated by Centre for Sustainability Accounting (CenSA), York, based on previous calculations by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), University of York

Money saved (£)

Each item transferred on WARPit is given a replacement purchasing value. This is the cost of purchasing a new item. The value is derived from public sector priced catalogues. Each item is also given waste disposal financial value related to it’s weight and volume. The total cost (£) saving is made up from internal trades, external inward trades, waste cost savings. This figure may also include the value (£) of time saved by staff, from avoiding the normal quote, purchase order, invoice process.

Waste (KG) diverted

This is a measure of waste being diverted into reuse rather than disposal. Each item that is transferred using WARPit is given an approximate average weight value (KG) based on a sector leading bulky waste guide. If the KG information for an item is not included in the reference document an average weight of the item is estimated using company specification data.

Equivalent
trees planted

Native broadleaf trees provide sustainable habitat for wildlife and enhance the natural landscape. These are therefore commonly used for Carbon offsetting projects. Over the course of its lifetime a broadleaf tree absorbs on average 730KG. Please note this is trees equivalent, we do not actually plant trees www.carbonfootprint.com

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