Category: Metal & Wood Workshop
Level: Gold
Author: Hannah Ogahara, Weng Man, Matthew Sweet
The Impact: <p>Without well-managed circular systems, material flows remain linear and dependent on continuous new input. Embedding circular use ensures materials remain in use for longer, reducing waste and demand for new resources.</p>
Details
Workshops develop structured systems to keep materials in circulation, including curated offcut storage, reuse shelves, and salvage systems, or cross-workshop redistribution of usable wood, metal, and components.
Material choices are considered in relation to end-of-life from the outset, so new materials, finishes, adhesives, and hybrid assemblies are selected with future reuse, recovery, or disposal in mind.
Workshops can evidence reduced material waste through improved planning, reuse, and circulation over time
