Product of the Month
08/Aug/2010
Original Interior and Garden Accessories handmade from Recycled Tyres by Tread
The incredibly intricate patterns of our frames and storage boxes are amazingly achieved from the creative reuse of tyres, the individual patterns of the tyre treads ensure that every piece is truly unique. Having the dark lustre of leather and a depth of pattern normally achieved from carved wood these interior products meet the stylish needs of the growing eco minded consumer.
28/Apr/2010
Sundeala - environmentally-sustainable fibre board
Founded in 1898 Sundeala first pioneered the production of a homogenous board from waste newspapers to create a unique kind of MDF. Sundeala is recognized as the world's first sheet material manufacturer; being the forerunner of subsequent organisations producing particle board products such as chipboard, fibreboard and MDF.
26/Mar/2010
Pavegen - paving slabs that generate electricity
Pavegen Systems ltd develops paving slabs that generates electricity from the kinetic energy of people walking. Wherever there is a high footfall, Pavegen harvests the wasted energy for applications such as street lighting, information displays and advertising
05/Mar/2010
Adnan Bayyat, Contemporary Designer
Ever thought of utilizing your surplus or redundant branded-products and waste materials to promote your business decorate your events and enhance your image?
"The Solution to Pollution" is a new initiative driven by an objective to encourage sustainable use of waste materials in a creative way. ....... that box of a thousand misprinted leaflets nestled 'neath your desk; that faulty batch of non-recyclable objects left unsold or even that ever growing pile of off-cuts cluttering the corner of your creative space. Adnan is the Chap for all your Scrap, renowned for turning all things trash to treasures that offer practical, affordable and often profitable solutions.
03/Feb/2010
The Carbon Quilt
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity, but we cannot see the root cause of the problem: the 80 million tonnes of CO2 that we emit to the atmosphere every day. Because of this invisibility, carbon footprint information ? kilos and tonnes of CO2 or CO2e - literally don't 'make sense' to most people. Now there is a solution - the Carbon Quilt - a universal tool that makes greenhouse gases visible.
04/Nov/2009
Let's Live Green
Andrew Mear, Steven Watson and Simon Mear are behind a new concept in green shopping in Skipton in North Yorshire. Letslivegreen.co.uk specialises in bringing a variety of micro-regeneration solutions to the general public.