Funds Established for Scottish Remanufacturing

Originally written by Kenneth Macdonald and published at www.bbc.com

Cash Backing to “Remake” Scotland a Waste-free Economy

Funding has been launched for nine Scottish projects designed to make things as good as new – or even better.

The cash is from the Scottish Institute for Remanufacture, supported by the Scottish government, to create a waste-free, “circular” economy.

Remanufacturing is a process that takes old but high-value products and restores them to an as-new condition.

In some cases, they are even better than when they were new.

Design flaws can be engineered out to make them better than they were in the first place.

The bottom line is that, compared to Scotland’s remanufacturing sector, the Wombles are amateurs.

“More than recycling”

That’s because making good use of the things that they find – the things that the everyday folks leave behind – may be good enough for Uncle Bulgaria and his colleagues, but remanufacturing goes further.

It is more than recycling or upcycling, more even than refurbishing.

Certainly more than giving something a quick polish and selling it cut price as B-grade stock.

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