TD SYNNEX has donated its old furniture with a fair market value of £158,828 – via redistribution specialist charity, the Waste to Wonder Trust – to UK charities and schools in Senegal and Cameroon.
The cycling back of desks, chairs and other items has resulted in 135,205 kilograms of carbon savings. With 100per cent all materials being re-used, all of the furniture or equipment that TD SYNNEX has yet to be recycled will go to landfill.
The donation was made as part TD SYNNEX’s recent re-location of its Basingstoke offices to a more energy-efficient building last month. At the same time, TD SYNNEX took the opportunity to purchase new sustainable office furniture, including new office chairs made from recycled fishing nets.
TD SYNNEX, UK director of environment and quality compliance Kevin Wragg said: “Just as we did when refurbishing the Bracknell site, when we moved the Basingstoke office, we wanted to make sure we stood by our commitment to sustainability and reduce, re-use and recycle any unwanted furniture and equipment. We’re delighted that we’ve been able to do so much and send everything – through Waste to Wonder – to places where we are certain they will be put to good use.”
When TD SYNNEX revamped its Bracknell office in November last year, it donated furniture with a fair market value of more than £25,000, to Waste to Wonder, which sent it on to a charity in Ghana.
The new 815,000 square-foot Basingstoke office into which TD SYNNEX has moved is in the Maplewood building on Chineham Park. It is fitted-out to the SKA Gold environmental standard, has an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of ‘B’, and a BREEAM score of ‘Very good’. The car park has 24 e-charging points for electric vehicles. LED lighting reduces energy consumption, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning is shared with other tenants. The building also has over 500 solar panels on the roof.
