The Rebuild Site & Reconomy

Turning Surplus Stock into Reuse

How a UK circular economy partnership is keeping surplus stock out of landfill and energy from waste, and putting it back into local communities instead. In this video, Reconomy and The Rebuild Site talk through what’s actually changing in how businesses deal with surplus and end-of-life stock. Rather than defaulting to the easiest form of disposal, materials are being kept at their highest level of use, whether that is reselling stock through a community store or businesses choosing to buy furniture secondhand instead of new. We cover: Why recycling sits at the bottom of the waste hierarchy, not the top A real example of stock that would typically go to energy from waste, and where it went instead Why geography is one of the biggest barriers to scaling reuse What growing this partnership, and others like it, could look like across the UK This is part of Reconomy’s wider work supporting businesses to move from a throwaway culture towards genuinely circular solutions.