Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch Railways) has recently won a circular award for their work upgrading a major part of their train fleet. The statistics are astonishing.

From a total of 242 (18 year old) double decker train carriages:
99 percent of the old train materials have been given a second life,
and 85 percent of those materials were reused in the newly refurbished trains.

From the remaining material, they turned old side walls into railway sleepers, old floors into football and table tennis tables, ceiling panels into desks and old train windows found new homes in the construction of new offices and workshops.

If you're curious, they made a great time lapse video of the stripping and rebuilding of a train carriage. Very cool.

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Also noteworthy is that each carriage requires 20km (!) of cabling to put USB charging ports at every seat. The cable bundles are pre-made at a social workplace, by people that would otherwise have difficulty finding meaningful employment.

I think this is a brilliant example of how you can turn almost all of your waste into something useful - and that has value, for you, for others and certainly for the planet.

How much value is your company throwing away every day?