I learned about FRN through an anonymous comment left on the blog a while ago. FRN is a national organization operating in UK. They collect furniture and domestic appliances, then remanufacture and pass them to people in need. While doing so they also achieve to divert a significant portion of electrical appliances form landfills helping UK's efforts to comply with WEEE.
In US, charity part generally works at the collection stage. Many 3rd party companies pay for collection of, for instance, used cell phones in bulk. This leads schools, churches and similar organizations to campaign for collection to build up funds. FRN, on the other hand, has an end-to-end perspective in combining poverty reduction, environmental activities, legislation compliance and extracting the value from used products through remanufacturing and re-use. A comprehensive business model, which I am not aware of in any organization in the US.
I think their business model is worth seeing, please check FRN website here.
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