In an ever more circular economy, sharing libraries are a way of maximising the usefulness of objects, without the need to manufacture more. The Edinburgh Tool Library took part in Creative Bridge (Cohort 4) and their subsequent Resident Entrepreneur project aimed to embed data collection in the culture of sharing libraries, so that the impact, social and environmental benefits of tool libraries can be measured and demonstrated more effectively.
As part of the project, they developed a charitable giving campaign and a data tool for libraries which includes a carbon calculator. The programme helped them to reach out to other organisations for expert help in data, marketing and environmental models and their carbon calculator caught the attention of the MyTurn team in the US who went on to host the tool on their own site. This allows every tool library using MyTurn (over 400 globally) to have access to their own carbon data on their MyTurn dashboard by default.
