Use instead of own
How many of the things in your basement do you use every day? Most tools spend their lives on a shelf. Renting means one item works for many people instead of waiting for one.
The idea behind it
There are things you need once or twice a year: the scarifier, the hammer drill, the projector, the tent. When the need arises, most people buy — and afterwards the thing just sits there.
Renting instead means paying only for the time you actually use the item, and saving the space. Letting out means earning from something that is there anyway. And the tool itself gets used instead of waiting.
What that means in practice
- One shared item replaces several newly bought ones — every machine not bought does not have to be manufactured, packaged and shipped.
- Even expensive equipment becomes accessible: renting costs a fraction of the purchase price, and that often decides whether a project happens at all.
- The handover is in person and local. There is no shipping — that saves the journey and creates contact in the neighbourhood along the way.
- What gets repaired and lent on stays in use longer than what ages in a basement after two uses.
What we do not claim
We do not calculate an amount of CO₂ saved for you. Such a figure would depend on the manufacture, lifespan, transport route and usage time of the individual item — data we do not have and do not collect.
A figure nobody can verify helps nobody and would be misleading advertising. What we can say is the direction: not buying something you barely need uses fewer resources than buying it. We claim no more than that.