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Approximately 165,000 to 200,000 tonnes of office furniture are thrown away by British businesses every year. Reuse and refurbishment should be deployed before any new furniture purchases and all new purchases of standard furniture should be refurbished. This is over and above the benefits of the existing buying standard. For a Government Department that usually spends around £10 million per annum on furniture, implementing this latest GBS (i.e. the changes since the 2010 GBS) will deliver an estimated cost savings of £1.1million per year.
