Flooring made of furniture scrap

by: Mirjam Visser, 2010-09-10 03:15:24 UTC
Sustainability Aspects: Ecotimber makes for its poplar vintage series use of 100% timber scrap from the furniture industry. It uses no ureaformaldehydes and other harmful VOC’s in their products.

Evening harvest

Although bamboo in itself is self sustaining, in can grow meters in a year and after cutting it off it continues to grow. Bamboo is however not necessarily the material with the lowest eco-cost. The market for bamboo is for instance in Europe but if production is in Asia the impact of transportation is so high that according to a research at the TU Delft, Netherlands, the eco-cost of European oak might be a better choice. The best choice is of course to see if you can use scrap wood which would otherwise end up in combustion. Eoctimbers flooring is a good example of this. They also don’t make use of ureaformaldehydes and other harmful VOC’s which are suspected to be harmfull.

Designer: n.a.
Manufacturer: Ecotimber
Category: resources reduction, re-use
Websites: www.ecotimber.com

Images

01eb4a30-9eb9-012d-4499-40405940767a
Evening harvest
3c798630-9eb9-012d-4499-40405940767a
Afternoon tea
745c2a30-9eb9-012d-4499-40405940767a
Last dance
A9bdefb0-9eb9-012d-4499-40405940767a
Anticipation
01eb4a30-9eb9-012d-4499-40405940767a
Evening harvest
from Ecotimber

Comments by our Users

Be the first to write a comment for this item.

Welcome

@ D4S, a platform by designers for designers, sharing ideas and knowledge on sustainable design
Learn more |  Leave Feedback
We are not-for-profit and want a trustworthy, independent site without advertisements.


If you like to use D4S please donate to enable us to pay hosting fees and extend the site. Thank you for your support!
Join us on LinkedIn