Earth Day highlights the critical need for sustainability in interior design, emphasizing a responsibility to create eco-friendly buildings and living spaces. Explore these innovative brands crafting materials with the environment in mind, paving the way for greener design practices that Material Bank thinks are worth checking out.
Borrowed Earth
Borrowed Earth uses ethically sourced raw materials in addition to recycled materials, with the goal of working with suppliers close to their manufacturing plant to reduce transportation emissions.
BuzziSpace
BuzziSpace uses recycled and recyclable materials, which both have a positive environmental impact and work well for acoustics. They continuously strive to lower their carbon footprint and make sure to be completely transparent about the materials they use.
Cooper Lighting Solutions
Cooper Lighting Solutions offers cutting-edge smart lighting solutions that enhance the sustainability of buildings, homes, and communities. In addition, they have eliminated plastic from their packaging.
Garden on the Wall
Garden on the Wall offers maintenance-free vertical garden installations for interiors. The material brings biophilia to a space without the hassles of living walls. These long-lasting gardens require no water, sunlight, or soil.
Geolam
Geolam is an architectural eco-friendly wood-plastic composites company with long-lasting materials composed of 70% – 80% recycled materials that are 100% recyclable. They are dedicated to building a sustainable world with both beauty and environmental responsibility.
HempWood
HempWood is a sustainable hardwood flooring crafted in America that uses hemp as a wood substitute. It is estimated that 162 tons of carbon dioxide are eliminated for every ton of hemp cultivated.
Kaynemaile Architectural Mesh
Kaynemaile re-invented chainmail by using bio-circular polycarbonate with the aim of reducing the company’s carbon footprint by up to 80% with bio-based raw materials.
Lightolier
Lightolier explores the sustainable benefits of 3D printing with a commitment to reducing CO₂ emissions by using materials with at least 55% recycled content or mass-balanced bio-circular plastics, in addition to being printed locally and on demand.
Pioneer Millworks
Pioneer Millworks is an employee-owned company that strives to keep its carbon footprint small, with one percent of its reclaimed teak sales donated to conservation causes on the island of Borneo.
REGUPOL
REGUPOL reclaims over nine million tires each year from landfills to make products that are comprised of 75% to 100% recycled content.
Stelapop
Stelapop transforms discarded denim into multipurpose panels that can be used in place of wood, aiming to reduce textile waste in landfills.
