Refurbed Marketplace sustainability score: 50/100
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Refurbed is an Austrian online marketplace for refurbished electronics founded in 2017. The platform connects buyers with certified third-party sellers who professionally refurbish devices, avoiding virgin production waste.
More about Refurbed Marketplace
Operating as a pure marketplace rather than a refurbisher, Refurbed facilitates circular economy transactions across Europe with ~300 staff and €3 billion GMV.
Founded 2017Head office AustriaStaff ~300Revenue undisclosed (GMV €3B cumulative as of March 2026; net revenue not published)Website ↗
Refurbed's business model directly addresses e-waste and resource consumption through verified lifecycle analysis, but the company lacks corporate emissions reporting, science-based targets, and formal Scope 3 inventory. B Corp certification and annual impact disclosures provide structure; operational footprint is negligible but unquantified.
Refurbed Marketplace scores 50/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified June 2026.
That places Refurbed Marketplace joint 155th of 1,023 companies scored, and 2nd of 26 in E-commerce / Online Retail.
Limited evidence. This score rests on 7 sources, 29% of them published by the company itself. Every source cited here passed the same quality checks as any other score: all live, none from data aggregators. There is simply less of it.
What is Refurbed Marketplace doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Energy Source and Carbon Footprint: Operations (3/10, 4/10).
Where Refurbed Marketplace lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- How clean its energy isMove to a renewable energy tariff or make a major efficiency investment.
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish full Scope 1 and 2 figures worked out to the GHG Protocol.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations4/10No full Scope 1 and 2 figures worked out to the GHG Protocol.
- Emissions from its supply chain5/10Most of its supply-chain (Scope 3) emissions aren't measured.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is3/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature7/10No verified restoration beyond its own footprint, or supply chain not mapped for nature risk.
- How it uses materials and handles waste7/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets5/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
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How is Refurbed Marketplace's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Refurbed Marketplace's score based on?
7 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
29% of them were published by Refurbed Marketplace itself; the rest come from independent sources.
This company's public sustainability disclosure is limited. This score is based on the 7 verified sources cited below, rather than padded to a standard count.
Limited data coverage. This assessment is based on 7 sources, 29% of which are self-reported by the company. Scores may change as independent evidence becomes available.
“Welcome to refurbed's Sustainability Report”
“ISO 14040/44-verified calculation model, refurbed is now the first marketplace in the world to provide its consumers with key figures”
“Refurbed customers have saved 350,000 tons of CO₂, 1,136 tons of electronic waste, and 116 billion litres of water”
“Refurbed employs about 300 people”
“Refurbed Marketplace GmbH earned an overall score of 89.2”
“380 t e-waste saved* equivalent to the e-waste at CH + AT combined in 2019”
“refurbed has surpassed €3 billion in cumulative Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) and expanded into 12 new European markets”
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Among the 26 major e-commerce / online retail brands we've scored, Refurbed Marketplace sits 2nd of 26.
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