Making Hire even more Sustainable

By promoting shared usage as an alternative to ownership, the hire industry directly supports the circular economy by using tools and equipment multiple times, extending their life through maintenance, repair and retrofitting or when they have reached their end of life selling them onto the second-hand market or recycling. All of these elements reduce the use of natural resources, carbon emissions and waste created when new tools and equipment are produced. Our eco-roadmap includes adopting circular economy practices to reduce carbon, waste, water use and pollution by working with our suppliers to repair, refurbish, retrofit and/or recycle our products.

We’re rethinking the norm on product design. Our Q-Fence panels, the alternative to traditional Heras fencing, are 100% recyclable, non-conductive, unbreakable, reflective and easily lifted and installed by one person. Our XTMfence®, a reusable fencing system reduces panel requirements by 70% reducing embodied CO₂ emissions by 38% and transport fuel emissions by 35% as well as being fully recyclable at the end of life. Check out our videos below for more information. Our partnership with Oxford Plastics who created the lightweight, composite LowPro Road Plates as an alternative to heavy steel plates reduces carbon emissions by 79% and supports a 2 person manual lift.

Our industry-first retrofitted Stage V emission compliant generator, in partnership with exhaust systems specialist Eminox, a global leader in the design of aftermarket retrofit technology was the first industry retrofit of a Stage IIIa generators to meet Stage V emission-compliant standards helping to reduce carbon emissions and air pollutants. Upgrading generators rather than replacing them helps reduce use of natural resources, carbon emissions and waste. Couple a Stage V engine with HVO D+ sustainable fuels as carbon emissions reduce by 90% thus helping to green construction! International Rental News Our partnership with Eminox was shortlisted as a finalist in the Construction News Awards in the ‘Supply Chain Excellence’ category.

Through our partnership with B&Q we have continued our drive to make hire the norm among retail consumers by promoting tool hire as way of reducing their environmental impact. For trade and retail customers, hire is a sustainable way to solve the problem of purchased tools being used infrequently, and getting old instead of getting used. Hiring tools delivers carbon and waste savings while helping people save money and space and enabling a more circular economy in the re-use of DIY tools and equipment.