BuilderScrap Merchants Membership Programme Launch
July 22nd, 2010
Revolutionary building materials reuse web site BuilderScrap is to launch a premium membership programme designed especially for builders’ merchants.
BuilderScrap was founded by commercial contractors The Trustland Group as a response to the ever increasing problem of construction waste. It aims to connect surplus building material, otherwise destined for landfill or recycling, with projects in the local area requiring those materials.
Previously aimed at contractors and tradespeople, BuilderScrap has now launched a membership for suppliers into the trade. This membership not only allows suppliers to pass on slow moving or returned stock to their local community, thus saving on storage and/or disposal, but allows them to demonstrate their commitment to the environment and the industry.
In an increasingly competitive environment, companies need to show that they are going above and beyond what is required by legislation and policy. By using BuilderScrap to pass on materials to charities,
community groups and other parties in need, companies can prove their corporate social responsibility.
The new membership programme will provide merchants with a whole list of benefits including:
1. Demonstrating your support for reuse within the supply chain
2. Evidence based corporate social responsibility
3. Helping provide your customers with the reuse solution
4. Stimulating the market by moving surplus materials which otherwise would have be thrown away
5. Visibility in the BuilderScrap directory
6. A route to market for obsolete and slow moving stock lines
BuilderScrap, a not for profit organisation, is seeking new ways to both improve the service and also help support what has become an invaluable industry resource.
Recent awards, including the Green Apple ‘Gold Award’ and the NW Construction Industry Carbon Reduction award, have shown how the industry now regards materials reuse as an integral part of the battle to combat waste and also cut costs associated with sending materials to landfill.
Les Owens, Managing Director of BuilderScrap commented, ‘with the launch of this new programme, we are confident that builders merchants will see value in supporting the site and also being part of a growing community of organizations within the construction industry, all brought together with one common purpose; the reduction of our dependence on landfill sites’
For more information about BuilderScrap please contact:
Rebecca Owens, Marketing Manager
T: 0844 225 3000