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Wharington Sustainable Furniture proudly designed and manufactured in Australia. Wharington are pleased to have received the GreenTag(TM) Ecospecfier Gold Plus A acreditation for their Recopol(TM) recycled plastic mouldings.

Wharington manufactures a wide range of sustainable loose commercial furniture incorporating Recopol(TM) recycled engineering-grade plastic mouldings. The range includes Executive and Office Task Chairs, Tub and Lounge Chairs, General Seating, Sofas, Tables, Stools and Outdoor Furniture. ISO 14001 certified, Wharington is committed to product stewardship and has an Environmental Pledge to take back their furniture for re-manufacture at end-of-life.

Have you ever thought to question what is inside the upholstered furniture in your office or library? Is it tropical rainforest plywoods, hardwoods, fibreglass, chipboard or MDF and all held together with glue? And where will your furniture go to at end-of-life? Will it be re-furbished, can it be sent back to the supplier for re-manufacture or will it join the millions of cubic metres of furniture that ends up in landfill each year in Australia?

There is a better, cleaner and healthier way of producing and managing the life cycle of furniture, manufacturing furniture with Wharington's Recopol(TM) mouldings. Recopol(TM) mouldings have been laboratory tested for VOCs and found to have with levels well below the Green Building Council of Australia Indoor Air requirements.

Designing and manufacturing with Recopol(TM) enables furniture to meet the key elements of Design for the Environment, with furniture designed for disassembly, re-furbishment and recyclability.

When you buy furniture with a Recopol(TM) frame, you are reducing VOC's to the indoor air environment, conserving a valuable resource, minimising waste to landfill, reducing greenhouse emissions through eco-efficient production and preserving our precious forests. We encourage designers to use precious timber sustainably for making the visible parts of our furniture, the legs, arms and decorative elements of the furniture.

Specialists in the fabrication of the sustainable alloy, Stainless Steel, Wharington incorporates this metal into our furniture to ensure longevity, low product maintenance and full recyclability at end of life.

Wharington supplies finished furniture as well as custom and standard Recopol(TM) furniture components to furniture manufacturers and designers/makers.

View our websites www.recopol.com.au for more information about Recopol(TM) and www.sustainablefurniture.com.au for information about our ranges of furniture.