Information on green, recycled, eco-friendly and sustainable surfaces
This thoughtful video produced by Craig Sowers of Kitchens by Craig in Albuquerque, N.M., shows how old pieces of discarded wood can be reclaimed and fabricated into a beautiful butcher-block countertop. Reclaimed wood reduces deforestation, and it saves all the energy that goes into felling trees...
Crossville has added new colors and sizes to its line of Empire porcelain tile that features 20 percent recycled content. The tile is made to look like marbleized stone, and now comes in three new colors: Cadet White; Marquis Greige; and Midnight Blue (pictured here). The...
Iris Industries offers three types of surfacing materials made from reclaimed and recycled ingredients: Textiles, Paper Fiber and Slate-ish. Textile recycling provides a huge amount of post-industrial and post-consumer scrap material. Denimite (pictured here) is from blue jeans, and Marblus, which has an appearance similar to...
TESSELLE introduced Corrosi, its new large format (24- by 28-in.) Silacrete tile. Silacrete is made from 50 percent concrete and 50 percent recycled glass and is suitable for use on indoor or outdoor walls. The company describes Corrosi as having the “look of concrete that has...
Meganite offers 18 colors of its acrylic solid surface with recycled content (such as the “Goldrush” and “Raven” colors shown here). According to the company, they are among the company’s most popular designs so they are more likely to be used in everyday projects. Although the...
Sustainable Materials LLC introduced in the United States Organic Blocks, a surfacing material made of sustainably harvested, rapidly renewable and recycled molded cork. Primarily used for wall décor, the molded cork ’tiles,’ for lack of a better term, have depth and dimension not typically associated with other...
IceStone LLC, the Brooklyn-based manufacturer of recycled glass countertops is now the exclusive Northeast distributor of PaperStone™ composite surfaces. Made in the USA using 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper and PetroFree™ resin, PaperStone is a durable and versatile sustainable surfacing material. Paperstone is NSF-certified as safe...
Vetrazzo, a manufacturer of surfacing material made from 85 percent post-consumer recycled glass added to portland cement, has a new surface color option, Coffee House. This environmentally-friendly product offering is suitable for use anywhere natural stone is used, such as countertops, tabletops, hearths/fireplace surrounds and architectural...
Móz Designs offers a variety of metal surfacing materials and a recent addition, Cosmos, is made using recycled aluminum. As part of the company’s Graphix collection, the metal surface is inspired by timeless textile patterns, and in this case a gradient background with several celestial patterns...
Theri, from Tesselle, is a printed tile pattern that forms a non-repeating design with both organic and industrial influences. Printed on Silacrete, which is 50 percent recycled glass and 50 percent concrete, this design is comprised of four tile patterns that are laid out in random...
IceStone LLC released a health product declaration (HPD) for its line of recycled glass and cement surfaces. The HPD is a standardized reporting tool that discloses product ingredients, allowing specifiers and consumers to make informed buying decisions. Although the HPD program only began in 2012, the...
Maniscalco, the Australian-based designer and wholesaler of glass, stone and metal decorative tiles, launched the Victoria Metal Mosaic Series made of 98% post-consumer recycled aluminum. The product includes “Mini Hexy” (pictured here in Falls Creek Blend) which consists of 1.25- by 1.5-in. mosaic tiles delivered on...
Tesselle’s Silacrete tiles from 50 percent concrete and 50 percent recycled glass, now come in several finishes: printed designs, murals, photorealistic, solids and custom designs. Suitable for outdoor wall applications or indoor applications, such as backsplashes, countertops, floors an walls, the digitally printed tiles allow designs...
LOTTARE’s ‘Granitali Collection’ line of granite composite Sinks include recycled granite, reports the company. They are made from a material that recycles granite and uses it in a forming process to create the sinks. This composite is designed to improve their durability. The kitchen sinks come...
TorZo Sustainable Surfaces offers its Denim surfacing material made from actual recycled scraps of denim fabric. An acrylic resin is infused into the denim and it is mounted to baltic birch plywood, with the end result being an extremely hard and durable panel, according to the...
Ecocycle™ is the product line of KRION™ solid surface that contains up to 35 percent of recycled material. This material, made by the Spanish company Porcelenosa Group, uses rejected sheets of other solid surface it produces and instead of discarding them, grinds them up and uses...
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