What is SLOOP and circular use?

Welcome to Sloop!

 

The right tech can open up the possibilities locked within your image of the dream lifestyle, or bubbling up from your creative vision or your business aspirations. 

 

Sometimes, though, your imagination is more powerful than the phone, camera, tablet or laptop you bought yourself last year - or the year before.

 

There’s a new way to get your hands on the right device, right when you need it to fully explore your plans and ideas. 

 

Let’s introduce you to Sloop. 

 

Sloop tech rentals gives you access to the latest tech to explore your world through a simple, budget conscious and eco-friendly service.

What is Sloop?

 

Sloop puts the latest technology into your hand for a low monthly subscription cost. It shifts the focus from owning more stuff, to accessing what it can do for you.

 

Sloop gives you the flexibility to change or upgrade regularly, and frees you from the weight of long term financing contracts. Plus, with Sloop Care, it’s risk free. Any  faulty device is replaced immediately so you have minimal downtime and no extra cost.

 

We need electronics to manage businesses and families, for communication and entertainment - to run most of our lives! But there’s a more important question than ‘do we need it?’ It’s this: do we need to own each device to do it all?

 

What if we stop wasting money on stuff we’ll throw away one day, and use it for access to the very best tech to do the job?

Filling the gap

 

If you wait to buy every product you want there will be gaps: those times you don’t have the right camera, phone or laptop to do exactly what you need to do. With Sloop there’s no compromise - you get the device you need now, with no debt. Sloop gives you immediate access to the missing piece of your puzzle, right at the time you need it.

 

The tech you own is tech that depreciates fast, can lock you into an onerous financial commitment, costs you in time and money to repair, adds to the problem of dealing with defunct devices and - worst of all - can lead to buyers’ remorse if you choose badly.

 

Your creativity and functionality shouldn’t be limited by your bank account. Premium tech should be a bridge to your best plans and ideas, not a barrier to them.

Staying flexible

When the circumstances call for it, we’ll rent a car, a home appliance, a holiday home or even a swimming pool. We rent things to fill short term needs. Renting your electronics makes sense in hundreds of scenarios: 

 

• Rent the latest phone to see if the new upgrade is worth the cost. 

• Rent a phone for an overseas student or friend on a short-term visa stay. 

• Rent tablets for kids on a long road trip, or for a training course, or an elderly relative who may want to experiment with the technology.

• Rent a high quality camera to capture your visual proposal, or that long-planned vacation.

• Rent equipment to launch your influencer journey, build a social media profile for your business - for all content creation that deserves the best production quality.

• Rent laptops for extra staff during seasonal surges, software testing or for businesses in growth phase (link to small business blog.) 

• Rent an e-bike to test its application for your commute - or for an extended cycling adventure.

• Rent devices for your startup or freelance business so you can be your most productive without draining your seed finance, or worrying about downtime due to maintenance or repairs.

There are as many reasons to Sloop it as there are families, individuals and businesses that can use quality tech. 

Keeping the tech in motion

 

Sloop’s goal is to minimize single-user electronics by offering circular use phones, tablets, laptops, cameras, e-bikes – and much more – for a low monthly subscription. 

 

We rent you the product you need, when you need it. 

 

We refurbish it and wipe all data when you’re done. 

 

We rent it to someone else - as good as new - and the product stays in circulation for its useful life.

 

If you’re feeling a little queasy about adding to your own or your community’s growing mountain of stuff, choose access over ownership. It’s one way you can help keep more electronics out of e-waste. 

Benefits of Slooping-it

 

• Save Money

 

A mobile phone loses at least 70% of its value in the first year – with some brands devaluing even faster.

 

With Sloop, you can access technology at a fraction of the cost and reduce the overall financial burden. That means better cash-flow for your personal bank account, family budget or business.

 

Cost-effective electronics rental means you’re not investing in high-tech devices with functionality beyond your requirements. Likewise, it avoids the disappointment of buying only what you can afford right now, when you’d prefer something more powerful. 

 

In business, special events like trade shows, travel, and growing into new markets all mean scaling up on technology – often before the funds are available to help you do it. Once the need is past, devices lie around unused. Tablets, laptops, cameras – Sloop tech rental is a low-cost solution that shifts the cost from a capital expense to a tax-deductible subscription. 

 

• Keep Up with the Latest Technology

 

Is the latest upgrade really worth the investment? Sloop’s electronics rental for businesses and individuals is the flexible, no risk way to find out. Use the device for six months, or a year and you’ll know if it’s exactly what you need. By then, of course, there may be something new, or an upgrade on your radar. With Sloop you have the flexibility to pivot according to your needs. 

 

Competitors with deep pockets may be able to buy the newest upgrade, but many of us just need to use the device, not own it. At Sloop, we believe the possibilities for technology shouldn’t be limited by your bank account.

• No downtime

 

With ownership comes responsibility for taking care of a product – for maintenance, repairs, servicing and upgrades. When something you own malfunctions there’s no choice but to take it to the repair shop and wait. And wait.

 

With Sloop Care, we pick up the old and deliver a new device with minimal downtime. The product you return is repaired and refurbished, wiped clean of data and re-rented to keep it in use and out of the e-waste cycle for as long as possible.

 

Rather than a depreciating asset, you have what you need to keep you at full productivity.

• Free up storage

 

Some of the tech we love – cameras, video equipment, studio equipment for example – aren’t used every day. 

 

Rather than store it for when you need it – and know that it’s losing its technological edge with every passing month – Sloop allows you to rent it to get the job done, and move on. 

 

Flexible tech rental not only frees up space in your home or office, it ensures the equipment you rent when you need it most is the latest version and in perfect working order.

Reduce e-waste through reuse

 

Every day, Australians discard around 32,000 electronic devices. Each Australian produces an average of 21 kilos of e-waste a year and – most troubling of all – only around 10% of it is fully recycled.

 

How many homes and businesses have outmoded, obsolete devices stacked in a box in the cupboard or storeroom? It all adds to the staggering mountain of abandoned technology. 

 

We can go further than ensuring our old tech goes to electronics recycling facilities. We can commit to ‘circular use’ for every possible product. 

What is Circular Use?

 

Our economy is run by consumer demand. We love our tech, but it’s depleting reserves of precious metals and rare-earth minerals and our carbon footprint gets bigger every day. 

 

Our motto has been this: Buy. Use. Dump. 

 

Of the millions of computers and TVs Australians buy every year, 88% end up in landfill. 

There is an alternative we can all support: Make. Use. Reuse. Recycle.

 

Circular use electronics is a vital step towards reducing e-waste. Short-term electronics rental gives you the fun, the productivity, the creativity of the latest tech without the downside – for people and planet – of individual, one-off ownership.

 

Sloop helps you – and your business – develop sustainable practices by choosing the eco-friendly and low cost tech solution. 

The world votes for Sustainable Development Goals

 

The United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development goals in 2015. The goals were adopted by all 193 member states and drive the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

 

In 2015 the goals were an ‘urgent call’ for action. Action is more urgent as every year passes. 

 

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 aims: “To ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.” As the UN describes it, the best way to achieve that is to shift our linear economies – where products are made, sold, used and disposed of – into circular economies. 

 

The results of linear economies are obvious: pollution, climate change and destruction of biodiversity across the planet. 

 

In a circular economy, it’s not just the final product that’s recycled and reused. Sustainable business practices are used all the way through the production chain - waste products are repurposed, and non-renewable elements retained and recycled. 

 

Governments worldwide are mandating stricter e-waste and sustainability laws. Compliance requirements will support circular usage of more and more electronic products. And that will have an impact on every home and business.

 

Whether you’re a tech enthusiast who can’t wait to try the latest gadget or a business trying to optimize resources and do your bit for sustainability, check out the benefits of Slooping it, instead of buying it.