Jye The Lih (JTL) introduced a leasing model for water heaters in Taoyuan’s social housing, which extends the product life, improves the recycling rate of packaging materials, and reduces waste.
Social housing provides more affordable housing through leasing options. Water heaters are essential items for every household, but under the buyout model, the management often struggles to respond immediately to residents’ repair or replacement requests due to a lack of manpower. If residents purchase their own water heaters, they may choose lower-quality products due to budget constraints, and they may not be able to repair them immediately when they break down. If the houses are being rented, why not rent the water heaters too?
Leasing is helping products and packaging materials last longer
JTL was the first to introduce the leasing model of water heaters in Taoyuan’s social housing. In order to ensure that water heater products are safe to use during the rental period, JTL selects more durable parts during the product design stage and conducts regular inspections and maintenance during operation to reduce the product failure rate as much as possible, and extend the service life of the product, optimizing the use of resources.
Besides the characteristics of the water heaters, the lease model can also promote the recycling of packaging materials. Service providers no longer need to ensure that packaging materials are always “new” due to customer requirements, but can recycle used packaging materials and use them for the next package.
Benefits
- Through service and maintenance, the service life of the water heaters can be increased from 5-8 years to 12-16 years.
- By recycling and reusing packaging materials, disposable packaging materials (such as plastic sleeves) can be used more than 6 times.
- The cartons and Styrofoam used during transportation are typically reused an average of 12-15 times per packaging material [1].
[1] Only 150 units of packaging materials are needed to install 2,400 water heaters in Taoyuan’s social housing.