Second hand and ex-display retailer The Used Kitchen Company, is further placing sustainability at the heart of the sector, as it launches its inaugural Kitchen Passport Week (May 17-24).

Kitchen Passport Week starts on the feast day and date of birth of the patron saint of kitchens, San Pasqual, and ends on the date of his death.

The aim is to encourage more showrooms to use a Kitchen Passport, for projects, to document their repurposing and encourage multiple use to avoid materials ending up in landfill.

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It follows on from No Skip Sunday, which took place on March 28 to remind the industry much of the UK’s skipped kitchen waste cannot be processed and recycled.

Showrooms and manufacturers already creating Kitchen Passports start the process, by noting the kitchen’s date of manufacture, its manufacturer, its materials and any appliances.

By creating a Kitchen Passport, independent retailers also ensure their customers own and hold kitchen details digitally, at www.mykitchenpassport.com, by transferring the passport to them at the time of sale.

It is hoped it will inspire the consumer to recycle their kitchen when they look to refresh their home.

CEO of The Used Kitchen Company Looeeze Grossman said: “We know the Kitchen Passport concept is groundbreaking. It is really an initiative of the future,  but one which is with us now and ahead of its time.

“Why wait for product passports to be part of daily life and waste yet more precious time for the environment, before we act as a sector?

“We can do something now, be early adopters and help drive product passport introduction in other parts of the economy. The kitchen sector can be the agent of real change, if it embraces Kitchen Passports.”

She concluded:  “We need to get people talking about Kitchen Passport Week and the whole concept of product passports.  The time for action is now, not in another five or 10 years’ time, when landfill is at breaking point and we are then in true crisis mode.

“My message to the trade is to do something decisive today and come on board as a Kitchen Passport partner.”