Introducing Material Rescue

Created by the founders at Surface Matter as a way to keep quality materials in circulation, Material Rescue is much more than a takeback service. It's about realising the inherent potential of materials and working with clients, designers and makers to create opportunities to extend the lifecycle. Beyond reclaiming old offcuts, samples, surfaces or packaging, we can also take back fabricated furniture, such as servery areas, till points, signage, retail displays, tables or worktops - or repair and refresh the surfaces in situ, extending the lifecycle and keeping the surfaces in better use, for longer.

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With any rescue we can develop a report based on the project takeback, using carbon and material passport data from the first use through to refurb, reuse or recycling. We can feed deconstruction information back to design teams to design-in circularity, making reuse and recycling easier on future projects. This works well for planning large retrofits, rebrands or changes in international store, hospitality and hotel design where a design lifecycle is phased over many years, improving the transparency and reporting Scope III footprint, recycling and waste data.