What Second Tide does for you.
Second Tide puts sustainable product and packaging designs into production, and runs returns, resale, refurbishment and material recovery for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. It is designed to recover cash first, and cut waste as a result.
Returns management
Process returns quickly and route each item to its best outcome.
- →Returns triage and grading
- →Restock, resell, repair or recover
- →Returns policy review
- →Cost and value reporting
Excess and obsolete stock recovery
Find buyers and routes for stock you’d otherwise write off, working with BankStreet.
- →Stock valuation
- →Alternative markets and resale
- →Component recovery
- →Cash recovered, reported
Repair, refurbishment and reuse
Extend product life through specialist partners.
- →Refurbishment programmes
- →Repair networks
- →Grading and certification
- →Resale channels
Material recovery and recycling
Recover materials from what can’t be reused.
- →Recycling partners
- →Material separation
- →Waste cost reduction
- →Audit trail
Packaging EPR and compliance
Practical help with packaging extended producer responsibility and related obligations.
- →Packaging data
- →Obligation review
- →Reduction opportunities
- →Reporting support
Sustainable design roll-out and take-back
Putting sustainable product and packaging designs from Waterfront Advisory into production, and closing the loop at end of life.
- →Material, supplier and packaging switches
- →Production trials and roll-out
- →Take-back, repair and reuse routes
- →Value and waste reporting
Flexible by design.
Start small and scale up if it makes sense. No minimum commitment.
Returns or surplus review
A one-off look at what you’re losing and what could be recovered.
Pilot
One product line or site, end to end.
Managed service
We run returns and recovery for you.
Value-share
Part of our fee linked to the value recovered.
Don’t write it off yet.
Tell us what’s coming back or sitting idle. We’ll tell you what it could be worth.