Mission Statement
From Linear to Circular: Building Towards a New Sustainable Lifestyle
ESG.STYLE represents a new lifestyle pursuing a more “sustainable, low-carbon, and eco-friendly.” life. We would like to start by changing the furniture that is so close to our life and launch a new furniture rental service. We offer our customers “a quality life and a taste in design.” At the same time, we are committed to sharing with our customers on how to live “a low-carbon life” by implementing the 3Rs (recovery, reduce and recycle). This would offer positive feedback to our environment and enhance the quality of life. We also wish that this lifestyle could become a new way of life in the future.
ESG.STYLE is working with IKEA, known for its design, on furniture rental service. By implementing the idea of “making life in the office your own even if this office is rented,” this rental service provides enterprise customers the furniture with great flexibility and maintenance service, and thus creates a better quality of life. Most importantly, it offers a low-carbon working environment with design quality that meet your needs at different times!
About us
Shun-Kang Asset Management & Consultant Co. is a small-sized company that offers management solutions and consulting services. In 2018, this company was acquired by Hannstar Union Corporation, and started to provide the financing and leasing services. In November, 2022, we create a furniture leasing brand called “ESG.STYLE.” By working with a well-known furniture brand, we can provide quality furniture for this rental service. The lease objects we offer brings a touch of design and are in compliance with the Corporate Carbon Footprint Guidelines For International Linkage. Through sharing and with proper maintenance and the right medium , we can offer furniture leasing to the customers in need of the service.
The Use of Circular Furniture
When furniture doesn’t have to reach its end of life, circular leasing allows it to head for a new mission.
“Linear economy” has dominated the activities from production to consumption nowadays. The practice of extracting raw materials, producing goods and discarding the broken ones has led to excessive amounts of unnecessary waste of resources. The increase in the volume of waste and the reduction of natural resources both have huge impact on our environment. According to Chen et al. (2011), for the widely loved wood furniture, around 84.45% of its wood waste created in the manufacturing process and the discarded furniture are thrown away to the landfills or incinerators as general trash. Every year the discarded wood waste can reach up to around 2.67 million tons. We can now change today’s mainstream economic model by means of circular leasing, thus reducing waste and easing the environmental burdens.
Different Business Stages
Furniture is what you can count
on at different stages of life.
The inconvenience people face in life is what makes this new type of services possible. Turning furniture products into service allows us to fully adapt to this need. The furniture that a family with kids need may vary at different stages of life. Even a business based on its stage of growth may need different solutions. As the requests for furniture may vary, this situation often leads to the problem of having to discard the old ones. In such a case, turning furniture products into service has become the alternative solution that brings in more flexibility.
The Importance of a Circular Model
Recovery, Reduce and, Recycle
In 2015, the United Nations released 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which cover three different areas, including environmental protection, social friendliness, and economic development. To reach each of these goals, the concept of "“ Circular Eeconomy"” was introduced. In the past, the discarded furniture has produced huge amounts of carbon emissions. In the article “Analyzing the CO2e output of recycling the waste wood furniture: An empirical study of Chiayi County’s regeneration furniture exhibition center,” published in the Journal of Environmental Education (issue 12), it reveals that when it comes to estimate greenhouse gas emissions, in the case of total recycling, it can reduce carbon emissions by 14,409 metric tons of CO2e. If by incineration, it can produce up to 7,925 metric tons of CO2e. If by landfill, it can also create 11,095 metric tons of CO2e. Among these three solutions, it may be most beneficial to recycle and reuse the resources to effectively reduce emissions.
The Rise of Sharing Economy
Leasing rather than buying, transferring from “ownership” of a product to “usership
The core value of sharing economy is to utilize the “idle resources.” The individuals/companies with idle resources can rent them out to individuals/companies, who are in need of the items but cannot afford to buy ones, in return for a payment, and grant them the right to use the items for a relatively cheap price. Through leasing rather than buying, this helps reduce waste and bring about change in the consumption pattern of consumers.
The Habit of Cherishing Things
A life story, not only about enjoying life itself, but also about being offered with high quality products.
Through passing on the ideas of circular economy and sharing services, we would like to help consumers to learn to value and appreciate the things they own, and also make sure that the resources are circulated and reused in order to reduce the extraction and consumption of raw materials, thus making true “circular economy” a reality.