says Whyte. “Recycled plastics don’t yield those bright, flashy colors, but that’s okay. We want earthy tones anyway, so it’s a perfect fit.” Furnware has also achieved a 50% reduction in carbon emissions over the past five years, with waste reduced by 85%. These achievements are audited under ISO environmental and carbon compliance standards, and supplemented by solar energy systems and hybrid vehicle fleets. All new products are now made with an element of post-consumer recycled plastics, as much as 90%, utilizing materials like ice cream containers and milk bottles that are recovered and reprocessed locally. Through an innovative circular economy program in Australia, old chairs are collected, ground down, and transformed into new ones. “We’re seeing that our sustainability mission is aligning perfectly with our color and design goals,” 96 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 07, ISSUE 08
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