Turning 'worthless' waste streams via upcycling techniques into high-profile circular office design that puts the customer's identity first. That is Triboo's goal. 

Founder Marc van der Heijden started it several years ago because he saw the enormous waste, he says in Smart WorkPlace's latest magazine. "We create sustainable stories about residual value and taking back second- and third-hand circular desks or we ship our toxins to Africa with good intentions. There it also ends up as waste and again harms people, animals and the environment. Because we don't see it we don't feel guilty and responsible."

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Track technology

But how do you solve that? Triboo uses track technology, as in one of the first projects where Van der Heijden had a chance to put it into practice, PostNL. "The products have an NFC chip that connects to a cloud solution so we always know where the value of our organization is. It also contains data on the project team,contract, owner and data on composition. With the take back button the customer can indicate that it should be picked up again, she gets the raw material value back after weighing it and we turn it into another circular product that the customer needs at that moment."

Challenge

So Van der Heijden's story is: we buy your waste and you buy back a cabinet or desk from that waste. "That is quite a challenge because large organizations are often compartmentalized and the responsibilities - waste, purchasing,furnishing etc. - are separated. To change you have to work together integrally."

Read the entire interview in Smart WorkPlace's latest magazine or view the article here.

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