Information on green, recycled, eco-friendly and sustainable surfaces
Teragren, a manufacturer of sustainably harvested bamboo worktops, panels and veneer, in honor of it’s 20th anniversary, now offers a free Continuing Education (CE) course titled “Designing with Bamboo for Superior Environmental & Human Health Impacts.” The course is worth 1.5 CE units and is offered...
Native Trails NativeStone™ concrete sinks use a renewable vegetable “jute” fiber mixture for reinforcement of the concrete. This jute fiber is integrated throughout the sinks to increase resistance to cracking. The sink line includes kitchen, bar/prep and lavatory sinks. The sinks are made impervious to staining...
Paneltech, manufacturer of PaperStone recycled surfaces, added two new PaperStone designer colors to its line-up: Graphite and Sand. This brings the total number of colors available to 11. The new colors are made from an FSC mix of 90 percent recycled paper, and mixed melamine and...
This slightly outdated video put out by buildaroo.com features Eric Corey Freed, principal of OrganicArchitect and author of Green Building for Dummies, who gave a presentation in 2009 (hosted by Kirei) in which he took a look at the future of buildings if mankind were to...
GEOS Recycled Glass Surface, a non-cement-based recycled glass material from EOS Surfaces, expanded its line of surfacing materials by adding two additional colors: Cirrus and Glacier Bay. These two new colors now bring the total number of material colors available to more than 20. Cirrus has...
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...
This video explains the ANSI/NSC-373 standard for “Sustainable Production of Natural Dimension Stone” developed by the Natural Stone Council (NSC) and the reason behind them. It was put out by BillLevyProductions, and offers interviews with a variety of industry players and some of the people behind...
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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