Ecoplastic Roadshow!

So the months of March and April were hectic here at Ecoplastic HQ – new products designed and manufactured, new website additions – generally what you’d expect during a busy spring!

Ecoplastic Recycled Plastic Outdoor & Garden Furniture

Loading up for the Road...Ecoplastic Recycled Plastic Outdoor & Garden Furniture

 

 

The most important part of designing and implementing a new range of our furniture is field testing it with the folks who’ll be using it each and every day – with that in mind, we hit the road to visit schools, councils, parks and gardens througout Ireland – from Sligo to Belfast to Dublin & Kildare –  and get their feedback on our new designs.    

First off, thanks to everyone who came down to one of our demonstrations and gave us feedback – your time is greatly appreciated!  

It was great to hear your thoughts and there was a genuine excitement surrounding some of our most cutting edge designs.  The Tullyfoyle and Killard benches garnered particular interest and they’re in production in our workshop and available for sale right now on our website.

 

Tullyfoyle Bench(Ecoplastic Recycled Plastic Outdoor Garden Bench)

Tullyfoyle Bench(Ecoplastic Recycled Plastic Outdoor Garden Bench)

 

 

It was so much fun, in fact, that we’re already planning a sequel :)  June/July will see us out on the road demoing our new range of park access and trail furniture – boardwalk, bridging, decking and new Ecogrid-style products will all be on show.

If you want to take part, just drop me a line:  nick@ecoplastic.net

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The Truth About Recycling…

The Guardian (UK) recently had a great article that put to bed a lot of the assumptions about the recycling of domestic waste.  You can read the whole article here, but some choice cuts from the piece:

“Ian Wakelin, Greenstar’s CEO, offers up a passionate defence of recycling: “Yes, there is a backlash against recycling at the moment, but there is also a real lack of balance in the debate. Is recycling being landfilled, as some are claiming? Beyond the contaminated matter that we have to extract from the recyclate we receive [about 5-10% of the total weight], I think this is nonsense. I haven’t talked to anyone in the recycling industry who has landfilled anything that is recyclable. The economics just don’t stack up. Why would they when landfill gate fees are so high? [Currently, about £50-60 a tonne.] They can give it to me and I will readily take it off them.”"

“Chris Allen is one of the reprocessors waiting keenly “downstream” for these materials to turn them back into “useful stuff”.  ”We turn things such as newspaper, old cardboard boxes and cornflake packets into quality brown paper,” he says. “The UK produces 2m tonnes of cardboard boxes a year. We should do our level best to produce these with locally recycled materials. At the moment, I’m paying £50-55 a tonne for mixed waste paper and card, whereas I’m selling it as brown paper for £280 a tonne. This is a viable business, believe me. The fibres from those trees that get cut down have a bloody good life.”"

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