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Obbligato is committed to using sustainable, environmentally friendly and carbon neutral materials where possible when manufacturing products.
In the current worldwide trend towards making eco friendly choices, stainless steel is appreciated for it's excellent environmental properties and is fast becoming the material of choice for domestic and industrial use.
It is fully organic and meets the requirements of the
Green Star Rating Tool used in the building industry in the following categories - indoor environmental (non-toxic), energy saving, water recycling, materials recycling (it is 100% recyclable), emissions and others.
Stainless steel is the most recycled material on this planet.
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Perspex
is 100% recyclable, 17 times stronger than glass, low maintenance and has a potentially long life span. |
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| Synthetic wood |
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Fibrewood - a synthetic wood material - has been used in place of natural material for the waste bins at Westwood Mall.
This material is extremely durable, and because of its nature, obviates the need for pesticide treatments, qualifying it as "green" on multiple levels, but still delivers the desired natural timber effect required by the client. |
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Fibrewood is a PVC based polymer that has a unique patent finish and is extruded, laminated and moulded to mimic a timber finish. It has been designed for outdoor use with special emphasis placed on selecting the best stabilizer system and pigments suitable for the most severe outdoor conditions.
Easy to maintain, lightweight, non-corrosive and damp proof, it can be moulded or heated to accommodate a curve, should the design call for something unusual. |
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Copper
- although expensive, is a
magnificent, sustainable material. Almost all the copper that has ever been mined is still in circulation because the recycling rate of copper is higher than that of any other engineering metal.
Of all the estimated copper resource
known to be available, only about 12% has been mined since the metal was discovered.
Nearly as much copper is recovered from recycled material as is derived from newly mined ore in the USA. Excluding wire production, which uses
mostly new copper, more than 75% of
copper used by copper and brass mills, foundries and other industries comes from recycled scrap.
Almost half of all recycled copper scrap is made up of discarded electric cable, automobile radiators and air conditioners and discarded plumbing pipes. The balance is new scrap from manufacturing such as chips and turnings from screw machine production.
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