Environment-Friendly Ingredients

Remnants – The typical stone factory uses only a portion of its stones; leaving “leftovers.” We utilize these expensive remnants to create our stone shades and accents. We polish and soften the stone, then form them into strips to be molded together for shades, table tops or other decorative elements on several collections. By doing all this, we’re helping to limit waste.

Recycled Metal – All of steel our iron is 70% or greater recycled content.

Recycled Glass – We are working with various glass factories to use more recycled materials. Glass is color sorted by collection companies, washed, crushed and made ready. In this stage it is called Cullet. “Cullet” comes from the practice of re-melting flawed containers, which have been culled from production lines. Recycling glass uses less energy than manufacturing glass from sand, lime and soda. Here’s the awesome part: Every ton of recycled glass saves 315 kilograms (or about 695 pounds) of carbon dioxide.

Reclaimed Wood – The Philippines signed and support the Tropical Timber Treaty of 1994. Since 2000, all exports from countries that signed this treaty will only use timber from sustainable managed sources. These countries have also established a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining all resources necessary to reach this objective. This includes the salvage and ruse of timber in the country.