Old PET bottles can be turned into high-quality felt for chairs, tables, and many more products. The best part? PET felt is easy to recycle, so nothing goes to waste!
A real pioneer! Renewable hemp can be turned into a 100% organic stool with an infinite service life, because the hemp seat shells are not thrown away when replaced. Instead, they are shredded and processed into new seat shells – without any drop in quality!
The disposal of office equipment is also part of the sustainable cycle in the green office. We are working on this aspect with our partner Junkbusters, a new company with a focus on sustainable and digital products. Find out exactly what’s involved here.
A key step on the path to greater sustainability in companies is the transition to the principle of the circular economy. In the “disposable economy” we’ve been using up to now, products are manufactured and largely discarded after their useful life, meaning they are not reused and waste is incinerated or sent to landfill.
We want to change that! By avoiding and reusing waste and recycling it effectively, we create a cycle, from production to the use of a product, in which only a small proportion of new resources need to be added. This means that in an ideal world, an office chair would be made from waste (e.g. PET bottles) or renewable materials (e.g. hemp). Once it has reached the end of its useful life, its individual parts can be processed into new elements in just a few production steps without the addition of further materials. These elements ultimately result in a new chair of equal quality, and so the cycle continues. Through this cradle-to-cradle principle, the chair gets a new life over and over.
What sounds simple in this example is highly complex in practice, especially when it comes to planning entire offices. As experts in sustainable office fit-outs, we are here to help.
