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The Herman Miller Mirra office chair is the first chair designed according to the principles of Cradle to Cradle. After usage it is returned to the manufacturer to be dissembled. 98% of the parts can be used again to make new chairs, without any loss of quality. Thus, The Mirra chair contains steel and aluminium which can be separated and recycled. The chair has a molded polymer back which can be recycled and reused up to 25 times. For technical information on Mirra chair, download pdf here
Project: Victor Innovatex
Eco Intelligent® Polyester
Eco Intelligent Polyester is an environmentally friendly commercial upholstery fabric. To be a Cradle to Cradle product, the fabric needed to be toxicologically safe for humans and the environment along each step in production. For instance, polyester is often made using a toxic heavy metal, antimony, whereas Eco Intelligent® Polyester is produced without antimony at no loss of quality to the fabric. Because it contains no hazardous chemicals to begin with, the recycling process has no hazardous by-products associated with recycling traditional polyester. In this way, the polyester fabric acts as a nutrient for industrial processes in the same way that nutrients, like phosphorous, are used and reused in the natural world. For more information about this Polyester click here.
World's First Compostable Clothing
(2005) First T-Shirt Designed for Contact with Human Skin
During 2005, the German clothing manufacturer Trigema and EPEA collaborated on the development of the world's first fully compostable t-shirt which is composed of yarn, dyes, a label and thread according to its Cradle to Cradle Design criteria.The t-shirts are produced with respect to safety and human health. Also, because the t-shirts have been designed as biological nutrients, they become food in the environment when composted after use. Planet Prosperity Foundations aims to distribute 50.000 of these so-called Let's Cradle t-shirts to the public free of charge. For technical information about Cradle to Cradle t-shirts click here.
http://www.epea.com/ for more examples
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