The World is Precious
THE WORLD IS PRECIOUS AND WE TAKE OUR POSITION IN IT VERY SERIOUSLY.
Sustainability is truly part of who we are, it is at the absolute core of our brand, or at least Sustain is.
Here’s how we avoid landfill and recycle around 60,000 to 70,000 items of furniture a year.
Set up in 2009, Sustain is our recycling centre, a business in its own right that services the whole of the furniture industry and beyond – something we’re super proud of. Sustain recycles our waste and waste from the wider furniture industry, including packaging and hard plastics.
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As well as looking at ways to reduce our impact through renewable energy, alternative fuel and energy efficiency, we do everything we can to recycle and reduce waste (over the last decade we have re-used more than 1.8million pieces of packaging).
We recycle all of the predominant materials used in modern furniture and re-manufacture where possible, often gifting to charity and local communities.
We believe that good design is always the starting point for sustainable products.
PACKAGING RECYCLING
Our returning delivery vehicles bring back packaging waste from our customers to be re-used or recycled.
In 2020 we recycled 150 tonnes of shrink wrap (LDPE), that’s about 450 bales and is equivalent to about 1.1million chair bags.
On average we recycle 600 tonnes of cardboard per year, which is the equivalent to saving over 10,000 trees!
On average we recycle around 20 tonnes of polystyrene per year, which is the equivalent of filling 82 of our 18 tonne wagons
FURNITURE RECYCLING
We recycle any furniture that has been classed as redundant by our customers irrespective of who originally manufactured the item.
On average we recycle 4,500 tonnes of material a year, about half of that is wood.
Our wood hoggers feed our bio mass burners which provide all of the heat and hot water for our factory sites.
We have two biomass burners: the one at our largest site supplies all of the heating and hot water for the entire site using only off cuts from production; the other provides all of the heating and hot water for our second site using only recycled product.
Some of our recycled wood even makes its way back into our suppliers chipboard which we then use to make new furniture.
We recycled 149 tonnes of hard plastics from furniture in 2020.
We recycled around 28 tonnes of fabric and foam in 2020.
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