Earth911 Podcast: Rheaply’s Garry Cooper Jr. on Turning Surplus Resources Into Reuse Gold

Earth911 Podcast: Rheaply’s Garry Cooper Jr. on Turning Surplus Resources Into Reuse Gold

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Meet Garry Cooper Jr., co-founder and CEO of Rheaply. Garry has been acknowledged as an innovator by Forbes, Chicago Business Magazine, and Crain’s. Much of the waste in our world is the results of overstocking and extra stock in enterprise and authorities. As a lot as $600 billion in surplus items are mendacity unused in among the largest organizations on this planet, together with universities, hospitals, and industries that span the planet, like development and heavy manufacturing. Rheaply.com is an rising useful resource reuse market aimed toward fixing the issue by enabling the transfer of resources to the place they can be utilized. The firm not too long ago closed a $20 million spherical of funding — from traders corresponding to Salesforce, Microsoft, AOL founder Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and others — bringing the quantity raised so far to $21 million.

Garry Cooper Jr., co-founder and CEO of Rheaply.com
Garry Cooper Jr., co-founder and CEO of Rheaply.com, is our visitor on Sustainability n Your Ear.

The Rheaply platform is a bit like eBay, however centered on creating regional circular economies. It permits buying and different managers to listing provides, tools, supplies, and different surplus or unneeded belongings on the market, then observe and join them to potential patrons to shut a sale and organize for supply.

By bringing collectively giant industrial patrons with provides inside a area, Rheaply reduces the emissions related to transport one thing half method around the globe. If it’s accessible regionally, the value and environmental impression are decrease. Additionally, the platform will help folks inside giant organizations change belongings and provides as a substitute of disposing of them on a surplus website. Rheaply additionally offers an embodied carbon tracker that stories on the emissions prevented by selecting gadgets listed within the market. We additionally discover what different sources Rheaply would possibly promote, together with unused worker time and internet bandwidth.

You can be taught extra about Rheaply at rheaply.com.