Sustainability

This bench used to be 600 milk jugs.

Rutherford Bench built from recycled plastic lumber and cast aluminum

Six hundred. Count being finalized against our recycling records.

The plastic

The lumber never was a tree.

100% recycled HDPE, half post-consumer and half post-industrial. The industrial half keeps the colour consistent. It never needs staining, and it re-extrudes at end of life.

Recycled plastic lumber benches at Thompson Rivers University
Thompson Rivers University
The materials

Four boards, four good answers.

Real textures from the live catalog. Tap a material to open it.

Recycled plastic texture
Our standard boardRecycled plastic
100% recycled HDPE, half post-consumer and half post-industrial. It never needs staining, and it re-extrudes at end of life. More about recycled plastic →
Casting aluminum at Wellington Foundry
Wellington Foundry
The metal

The most recyclable metal on earth.

Aluminum can loop forever. Supply is the only limit. Our castings pour with every pound of reclaimed metal we can find, in our own foundry.

See the materials in the wild.