Zero-Waste Student Marketplace to Launch at Seven Universities in 2022

The Hazaar app, founded by young entrepreneur Harriet Noy, allows students to buy and sell items such as clothing, shoes, costumes, textbooks, household bits and more.

Students then meet up in person to hand over the items, eliminating the need for postage, making Hazaar a zero-waste student marketplace.

Although there are other marketplace apps out there that buy and sell second-hand items, on Hazaar’s app, every university has its own localised marketplace where they can buy and sell from other students in their area.

This ensures that the buyers and sellers on the app are only a short walk away to cut down on postage and make the exchanges quick, pain-free and emissions-free.

Hazaar first launched in November 2021 at the University of Birmingham with the great success of 2,000 downloads in their first week.

Hazaar is now expanding throughout the country, launching at universities in Leeds, Manchester, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool, and Nottingham, with hopes to further this expansion throughout the UK.

Harriet Noy, CEO and founder of Hazaar, had the idea for the app when she was a student herself. She saw her friends and peers relying on Amazon to order their books for university, household items and costumes for student nights. Not only was this a waste of packaging, but these items were becoming single use.

Harriet Noy, Founder of Hazaar: “Students are interested in sustainability, it is hugely important to us but due to the financial constraints involved with being a student, it is hard for many students to be sustainable. I hope that Hazaar will make being sustainable easy and cheap for students.”

To follow along with Harriet’s and Hazaar’s success, you can join the community of over 4,000 followers on Instagram where they share their top tips to leading a more sustainable life.