SUSTAINABILITY Plastic Bank’s collectors benefit from collecting bottles
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The chairs use Social Plastic
A new outdoor collection will remove 13.2million bottles from the seas
LifestyleGarden’s new Nassau outdoor furniture collection will remove 13.2million plastic bottles from the oceans and seas in its first year. Each chair will use the equivalent of 175 recycled plastic bottles while helping those who collect the bottles. The UK manufacturer has partnered with Plastic Bank to use its Social Plastic. Social Plastic is ethically recovered plastic waste, which helps fight ocean pollution whilst simultaneously improving the lives of those who collect it. The collected plastic waste is washed,
Each chair has the equivalent of 175 recycled plastic bottles
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flaked, and goes through a recycling process, where it is then pelletised and integrated into products and packaging as part of a closed-loop supply chain. Manufacturing in-house means LifestyleGarden can ensure complete traceability of material and product. Collectors in Plastic Bank’s ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities receive bonuses for the materials they collect, which helps them provide basic family necessities. Plastic Bank’s Alchemy blockchain platform secures the entire transaction
and provides real-time data visualisation, allowing for transparency, traceability and rapid scalability. Businesses can see the impact their product is having on communities and people, and can determine where material has been collected and by which collector. LifestyleGarden’s commitment to Social Plastic has resulted in the equivalent of 11million plastic bottles being prevented from reaching oceans, as well as positively impacting two communities and more than 400 people. A further 2.2million bottles will bolster these numbers throughout the 2022/2023 season. In total Plastic Bank has helped to prevent the equivalent of more than 2billion plastic bottles reaching our oceans and has operations in the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil and Egypt, with plans for further expansion in 2022. The Nassau chair from LifestyleGarden has 100% FSC-certified hardwood legs, allowing it to be fully recyclable at the end of its lifecycle. It builds on the company’s DuraOcean chair, introduced in 2019 as the first commercially viable outdoor chair made from recycled ocean plastics accessible to the mass consumer market. The Eden Project uses DuraOcean in its catering areas and sells the chairs through its shop and website and will also be selling Nassau. Visit: www.lifestylegarden.com; www.plasticbank.com
