Doors

Classed as a ‘hard & rigid’ plastic, the board material for the unit doors shown here is made from factory reject and post consumer waste… yoghurt pots!

It takes 700 yoghurt pots to make 1 sanded unit door!






doors


Worktops

Another similar ‘hard & rigid’ plastic, this time made from reject & post consumer vending machine coffee cups. 

It takes 2400 coffee cups to make a 1 metre worktop!

Being a plastic material, we strongly recommend the use of pan stands etc, to minimise surface damage.

Being solid material all the way through gives us two ultimately practical surfaces, impervious to water damage and able to be resurfaced should any knocks or scratches affect the surface.  Both can be refinished by use of a random orbit sander and 240 grit discs.

The colour flecking in both materials does depend entirely on the raw material mix at the time of production but will be generally similar to those shown.

 


worktops

Cabinetry

The board used in producing the cabinets is ‘Egger’ 18mm Hexham board, melamine faced.  The composition is 50% recycled material with another 35% FSC approved timber source.

To quote Egger, “Egger Eurospan board consists of up to 70% softwood mainly delivered as residual wood (Edgings, trimmings and shavings from local sawmills) and recyclable timber such as pallets, fruit crates and packaging material (within the meaning of the act on closed substance recycle management and the conservation of resources).

 

cabinets

Sink

A BlancoDelta stainless steel corner sink, made from recycled content steel, which is in turn recyclable.

 

sink

Lighting

2 types of lighting are featured here, both low energy consumption.  The under unit lights are cold cathode using only 5 watts each and the flyshelf lighting is a coiled compact fluorescent at only 7 watts.

The light fittings used also comply with the new WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) regulations approximately marked to indicate that they are to be recycled.

 


LINKS

www.blanco.co.uk
www.ecotopia.co.uk
www.doybags.com
www.malika.org.uk
www.greenwarehouse.co.uk
www.egger.co.uk
www.recyclingaction-yorkshire.org.uk

 


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