What is Globechain?
Globechain.com is an online reuse platform that connects people, charities and businesses to enable them to reuse unwanted items within a global supply chain network creating a waste audit and social impact value for members.
From shop fixtures and fittings to coffee grind for growing oyster mushrooms to medical equipment and office furniture, we want to help create innovative reuse solutions for everyone.
Globechain focuses on within the retail, commercial and construction sectors.
Social impact data collected for each member can be used for help with grant funding, community engagement and can help winning tenders.
Globechain believes that there is someone somewhere that could benefit from unwanted items. Companies throw away millions of tonnes of unwanted items and products to landfill every year and more and more recognise the need to help those in need of those very products. Whether it is reusing medical equipment in hospitals in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Kenya or helping a small business with office furniture, Globechain’s platform helps enable its 10,000 strong members to connect to companies that want to do the right thing and be commercial with a conscience.
One example where one of Globechain’s members helped the community was via
The NHS through Globechain donated bulk items to a charity that reuses medical equipment and solutions in Guinea within Ebola crisis hit areas.
(left to right) From UK To Koula Mawde Centre, Guinea Conakry
The centre in Guinea helps around 2,500 people in the community and was desperately lacking basic medical provisions.
Staff were over the moon to receive medical beds, cabinets, patient chairs and crutches that made a direct impact to their working environment and patient welfare. Over 15 tons of equipment was redistributed by a charity member to these rural areas.
Charities can register and take items for free from the members that donate items via Globechain.
Article by May Al-Karooni
CEO and Founder
Globe Chain, UK