NewWays for Environmental and Social Change

Who:

Furniture companies, recycling companies, or entrepreneurial people looking for a prospective sustainable business

What:

Contract an agreement with your local municipality, recycling organization, or neighbors to collect plastics. Plastics can be shredded up to about pellet size and used as a filling for couches, futons, mattresses, recliners, chairs, and other furniture. Furniture can then be sold as a comfortable, sustainable, and reusable product made to last several years.

Specifics:

Outer shell can be made from organic cotton or from a hemp product.

Furniture can be tightly packed, allowing for possible therapeutic advantages, plus comfort.

Bamboo or sustainable-forested wood can be used for an added support in the making of this furniture.

Needed:

What is needed is access to a processing plant used to sanitize plastic and shred into an appropriate size for the inner fill of furniture.

You also need a PR campaign to market your product to possible companies in the furniture industry and network with those involved in the recycle industry.

Further notes:

This is an idea, which can easily be pitched to furniture companies, as the material (plastic) used would be virtually free. Many people believe in the idea of recycling and support the cause – making it an attractive product for the consumer.