Big entrepreneurial ideas often have their origins in small daily observations. This is what happened to Maxime Baffert, who noticed that, when the big companies move, they throw away all the furniture, without any mercy. "Each year, 250,000 tonnes of office furniture are thrown away," says Maxime Baffert, founder of Bluedigo, a company that sells used office equipment. More often than not, it's simply because they don't know what to do with all this material. ” His site gives a second life to this furniture, in another company, often smaller structures.
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Today, 99% of office furniture and supplies go straight to the trash during a business move. For Maxime Baffert, it is therefore a market that is almost to be invented ... "In addition, office furniture is known to be expensive," he explains. We sell it for around 50% cheaper. We recover, we repair, and we sell as if the furniture were new! ” Both economical and ecological.