by Mark Lennon | Feb 1, 2014 | Case Study, Recycling
Working through the Christmas holiday, IRN helped King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA, to provide more than 4,500 pieces of residential furniture and equipment to communities in El Salvador. On December 19, King’s College completed purchase of the Ramada Inn in...
by Mark Lennon | Dec 11, 2013 | Recycling
We don’t always get photos or feedback when IRN surplus is distributed in Jamaica or Haiti or Ghana or a small town in Kentucky. In most of these places there are no smartphones. Outside of cities like Kingston or Port au Prince, there’s no cell service. Almost no...
by Mark Lennon | Dec 9, 2013 | Case Study, Recycling
A Massachusetts firm asked IRN to clean out a retired manufacturing facility. Dating from the 1930s, the plant had been used for production, storage, and administration. Production was shut down and employees moved out in the 1990s. The plant was used for storage for...
by Mark Lennon | Nov 14, 2013 | Case Study, Recycling
Here’s a pretty typical corporate case study, a project we did with One Workplace in Silicon Valley. The company, a One Workplace client, was moving to a new campus. They took along the best of their furniture. But when they did a cost:benefit analysis, they decided...
by Mark Lennon | Nov 1, 2013 | Recycling
It is not widely known that IRN has one greatest invention. Like, a physical thing, a product, a real invention. It is the IRN Tech Double, which is a dual recycling container for batteries and handheld electronics. It is actually Dana’s invention, but I do the...
by Mark Lennon | Oct 30, 2013 | Case Study, Recycling
After decades of hard use, MIT is undertaking a complete renovation of its Sloan Building, hub of the Sloan School of Management, on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. After removing all furnishings suitable for reuse on campus, MIT was left with nearly 850 pieces of...
