Humble Sustainability, co-founded by its CEO Josef Werker, is making companies see the value in their excess or unwanted inventory while keeping them out of landfills
You have electronic equipment that needs to be disposed of or replaced; Philippine startup Humble Sustainability wants it.
Its CEO, Josef Werker, co-founded the company in 2021 with the goal of lengthening the lifespan of consumer products, particularly helping businesses handle excess inventory. By repurposing these products and working with recyclers, resellers and refurbishers, Humble Sustainability has helped clear warehouses and office spaces of items that would have otherwise ended up in landfills while enabling businesses to turn unused assets and dead stocks into extra earnings.
Werker describes how his interest in the environment began in his own words.
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Since I was a young kid, I’ve had a passion for nature. [This is thanks to] my mother, who advocated for sustainability her whole life and always stood for what she believed in. With my family, our gadgets were secondhand and holidays were spent camping in the woods, so I learned to appreciate nature and the environment.
At Humble Sustainability, we want to help businesses generate revenue from their excess equipment. More importantly, we want to prevent these items from ending up in a landfill and creating a destructive impact on the planet. With our B2B network, we sell these items to others for these businesses.
The Philippines is among the worst polluters on the planet. We need to make drastic changes. Very soon, businesses must report on their carbon footprint and we must be ready. That is why we’re building a product that will assist these businesses in creating, measuring and achieving their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) goals.
We want to be the leading climate technology business in the country that enables people and companies to live circularly. We want to be the independent party that requires all organisations to prove the legitimacy of their carbon footprint and sustainability. We want to eradicate [corporate] greenwashing and be the ones to tell businesses, “Yes, you are sustainable because you managed to achieve certain metrics.”
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