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Joanna Knight has over 30 years’ experience in marketing, sales, PR and journalism in the office / workplace sector. She was a founder member of Amaryllis and Board director for over 15 years. Originally founded to target the emerging Private Finance Initiative (PFI), Amaryllis specialised in Furniture, Fittings and Equipment including product specification and supply, reuse and renovation as well as support services including porterage, removals and onsite repairs. The Company’s customer base included major, long term contracts primarily in the public sector, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, NHS as well as major corporate clients with British Airways being the most prominent.

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February 16, 2021

We must seize the chance to go full circle on sustainable office design

by Joanna Knight • Comment, Environment

The circular economy is the ‘holy grail’. Few people would deny the ambition of keeping resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them, then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of each service life. Is this achievable within the furniture and furnishings sector? Many manufacturers and suppliers can justifiably boast impressive ‘green’ credentials, such as manufacturing techniques, the use of innovative and sustainable materials as well as recyclability of products. The production and supply of new furnishings doesn’t address, however, the short and longer term issues relating to sustainability. ‘Cradle to cradle’ is a great concept – but who is responsible? More →