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Schools all around Australia are striving to enrich and enhance the educational experience for pupils and expand their facilities without incurring excessive costs or long-term maintenance obligations. Individuals charged with this task are inclined to think of improving desks, computers, whiteboards and other indoor facilities. One of the most commonly overlooked features of many schools is the outdoor furniture that they have installed to create comfortable outdoor learning environments for students to engage in nature. In Australia, our educational facilities have a strong focus on a wholistic experience in which children participate in learning both indoors and outdoors.

Creating comfortable outdoor learning environments has become increasingly important over the years as we prioritise students school lives – providing places to learn, play, socialise and relax on school grounds. Bringing the classroom outdoors and providing ample outdoor seating arrangements has a range of benefits for students, supporting their learning, social skills and overall health.

The benefits of installing outdoor furniture in schools and other educational institutions include:

Immersing Students in Nature

Every student is unique, and whilst some decide to play physically during their outside time, some choose calmer pursuits such as reading a book, finishing their schoolwork, or simply sitting quietly and conversing with other students. At break times, these pursuits are just as popular as physical play, climbing, and jogging. Being outside provides students with the opportunity to stimulate their curiosity, socialise with friends in a relaxed environment and enjoy their breaks in the sun. Educational institutions need to provide equipment for those who prefer active pursuits, as well as park benches, seats and outdoor tables for those who opt to sit and relax outside during their breaks from the classroom.

Brings learning outdoors

While most lessons take place in a classroom, outdoor areas can also serve as a beneficial learning environment. The outdoors can provide a relaxed and comfortable learning environment as everyone has an innate urge to be in and connect to nature. By providing students with the option to spend some of their classes outdoors in a space furnished with outdoor furniture, students can satisfy this need. There are many advantages to outdoor classes, and with an appropriately equipped outdoor space, teachers and students alike can benefit from working in nature.

Creates a comfortable environment

Although it might seem obvious, your school’s outdoor furniture offers a comfortable location for both teachers and students to unwind when required. Even though the majority of a typical school day is spent indoors in a classroom learning, students still need to go outside to go from class to class, enjoy recess and lunch, participate in physical education, or depart the campus at the end of the day. Commercial street and park furniture is a crucial investment to accommodate everyone who wants to relax, study, eat, drink, or move comfortably during these scenarios.

Encourages socialisation

A key component of school life is the development of social skills; academics are obviously essential, but many students will spend most of their break time socialising outside. The social skills of students are benefited from street furniture in this situation. Seating, such as benches, seats and outdoor settings and outdoor tables, are essential in every educational facility as they help promote social interaction and provides areas where students can unwind and form connections. From straightforward classic wooden benches to a more contemporary timber and aluminium minimalism bench, Park Furniture Australia offers seating and benches in a variety of designs and materials.

Provides safe and secure seating

Because our benches and seats are available in bolt-down and in-ground mounting options, students are more secure because they can’t move them around, which lowers the risk of accidents and injuries on school property. benches, seats and outdoor tables free from sharp edges are perfect for schools as students are less likely to scratch or harm themselves on the sharp edges. In-ground benches and seats that are secured with bolts also deter theft, particularly after school and on weekends when it is known that the grounds aren’t usually manned.

Flexibility of choice and customisation

Our street furniture range offers a wide selection of outdoor furniture solutions suited to educational facilities. Whether you’re looking for non-permanent seating solutions for collaborative learning, school assemblies and more, stackable seating may be useful to you. If you’re seeking to create an outdoor eating area, then our range of outdoor settings will be perfect to provide comfort and functionality. Whatever you may be looking for, our range has something for every outdoor seating need, and we are able to fully customise our seating options to suit your colour, size and accessibility requirements.

Park Furniture Australia’s extensive range of street and outdoor furniture is a perfect fit for schools and educational institutions across Australia that are looking to create functional and aesthetic outdoor seating areas that will last. Our products are designed and manufactured with quality, durability and style in mind. Our materials ensure our products are low maintenance, warp and stain resistant, graffiti proof and can withstand the harsh Australian climate.

We produce items on demand to assist you in getting your campus ready for the new academic year and for many years to come. We encourage you to peruse the various choices and the comprehensive selection of our customisable colour and finish options that can elevate the effectiveness and student quality of life on your campus.

Want to see how we have helped schools across southeast Queensland enhance their outdoor spaces? Check out our Case Studies area!

Interested in finding out more about our high-quality outdoor settings? Feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124!

At Park Furniture Australia, as a supplier of high-quality outdoor furniture and street furniture, we combine functionality, aesthetics and sustainability to offer our clients value with every product.

What makes our products different is our material choice – street furniture is used in public outdoor spaces and as such, it is exposed to the harsh elements of the Australian climate as well as the general wear and tear of continuous use. Because of this, outdoor furniture needs to be robust and require minimal maintenance. The furniture we manufacture at Park Furniture Australia is made from ECOPLASWOOD, a material made from recycled plastics, and recycled Aluminium.

Aluminium’s durable properties make it one of our choice production materials as it can withstand any street, park, or environment:

• Resistance to Rust and Corrosion: Exposure to various weather conditions over time does not cause aluminium to corrode or degrade. This makes it suited to harsh Australian weather conditions such as direct sunshine, rain, snow, ferocious storms, and extremely hot or cold temperatures have no effect on aluminium. Because it is resistant to UV rays, high precipitation and humidity in particular, aluminium outdoor furniture is perfect for coastal regions.
• Lightweight and Strong: Aluminium is a great material for outdoor settings because of its amazing balance of lightweight and durability. Lightweight aluminium furniture is portable and easy to move while being sturdy with a high strength-to-weight ratio.
• Low Maintenance: To maintain the appearance of aluminium outdoor furniture, you don’t need regular cleanings or the application of protective coatings making it the perfect solution for public outdoor spaces.
• Affordable: Despite its many advantages, aluminium furniture is inexpensive and offers excellent value for your money. With little care required and reasonable rates, aluminium furniture is a top choice for outdoor use.
• Recyclable: Arguably the most beneficial feature of aluminium is its ability to be recycled. Aluminium is known as the “Green Metal” as it is a highly durable metal which is 100% recyclable and can be recycled again and again without degrading its inherent value. Nearly 75% of all aluminium ever produced is still in use today.

Aluminium is increasingly becoming the material of choice in our modern sustainable world for outdoor furniture due to its longevity, simplicity of installation, low maintenance requirements, and affordability. Our premium aluminium furniture range comes from 100% recycled aluminium stock and is reformed into our signature street furniture designs. Aluminium is a great choice for all types of commercial cases for outdoor furniture including outdoor settings, park benches and park seats. View our aluminium street furniture range today!

Interested in finding out more about our high-quality aluminium outdoor settings? Feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124!

Enjoy the great Outdoors, Sustainably

Recreational grounds in all council areas are the lifeblood of our communities. They are the place where people meet, live and laugh, a place for reflection and remembrance, a place for first dates, dog walks and morning runs.

Managing our parks and gardens is more important than ever as we move towards being a collective of people who work from home and rarely socialise outdoors.

The landscape design of these spaces is critical and the choice of infrastructure is paramount.

Low-maintenance, long-lasting products

Roadmaps tell us that councils should create spaces that are inclusive, accessible and easy to use which feature low-maintenance, long-lasting, easy-to-install products that are sustainably sourced, aesthetically pleasing, comfortable and cost-effective.

It’s a big ask, but it is what they do at Park Furniture Australia. In fact, it is all they do.

At Park Furniture Australia they have made it their mission to design and manufacture stunning park furniture that is durable, graffiti-proof, insect-resistant, comfortable and 100% sustainable. This means all their products are manufactured from recycled sources.

100% sustainable outdoor furniture

At Park Furniture Australia they want to fundamentally change the way you think about outdoor furniture. No longer is it necessary to chop down trees to create beautiful long lasting outdoor furniture like park benches, outdoor settings and park seats instead Park Furniture Australia helps councils across Australia to drive the circular economy by being part of the process of taking soft plastic waste and aluminium offcuts out of landfill and remaking other durable products with it.

As an Australian manufacturer of high-quality sustainable outdoor furniture for urban environments, Park Furniture Australia’s drive and passion is to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

To read more, check out the Spring 2022 edition of Council Leader Magazine or give our friendly team at Park Furniture Australia a call on 1300 968 124 to discuss your next outdoor park or street furniture project.

Article reproduced courtesy of Council Leader magazine

How Park Furniture Australia is helping with sustainability

Here at Park Furniture Australia, we believe that no plastic should end up in a landfill in our natural environment. That’s why we are one of Australia’s leading suppliers of sustainable, eco-friendly outdoor furniture and street furniture for a wide range of urban environments. Our drive and passion are to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

Please click here to view our extensive range of ECOPLASWOOD recycled park and street furniture or feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124.

Outdoor tables in parks, gardens and schools are the place where conversations are held, where ideas come to light and where memories are made.

If you are in the procurement industry then no longer are you just the person who orders stuff – now you are the maker of memories, the sole person who connects the dots – the one who makes it possible!

Sustainable outdoor sets and benches

So, if you are looking to enhance a space, upgrade a playground, set the scene and your scope is to locate sustainable, durable, robust, low maintenance, easy-to-install outdoor settings and park benches – then look no further than Park Furniture Australia’s outdoor range.

We have a fabulous range of outdoor furniture for parks and gardens, memorial spaces, churches, public spaces, schools, educational establishments, hospitals and medical precincts – anywhere that you need great quality, long-lasting outdoor furniture that is made in Australia from sustainable, recycled materials.

Our outdoor setting range is made from 100% sustainable Ecoplaswood manufactured from recycled soft plastics. We also have a wide range of recycled aluminium settings as an alternative!

Please click here to view our extensive range of outdoor settings and street furniture that we supply throughout Australia.

How Park Furniture Australia is helping with sustainability

Here at Park Furniture Australia, we believe that no plastic should end up in a landfill in our natural environment. That’s why we are one of Australia’s leading suppliers of sustainable, eco-friendly outdoor furniture and street furniture for a wide range of urban environments. Our drive and passion are to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

Please click here to view our extensive range of ECOPLASWOOD recycled park and street furniture or feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124.

Keeping plastics out of landfill is really important because it takes a very long time for plastic to breakdown, our planet cannot sustain the level of plastic we throw away. Something else has to be manufactured from this cacophony of rubbish.

By choosing a recycled plastic timber look slat product we are doing our bit to remove as much plastic from being treated as rubbish as possible.

We manufacture sustainable, robust, maintenance free, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing Park Furniture solutions from what would otherwise be rubbish.

Our products are designed in Australia for Australian conditions that won’t split, warp, crack, craze, or discolour.

The exciting thing is that ECOPLASWOOD looks and feels like natural Timber, except it is made from recycled HDPE plastic and is impervious to:

• Insects
• Salt water
• Wind
• Snow
• High Temperatures
• Won’t stain
• Graffiti Proof

It stands up to all Australian conditions from the freezing cold of the Australian Alps to the high temperatures and humidity of Darwin. So our products last longer than the traditional timber options, they are easier to clean and require less maintenance.

To us the choice to use Ecoplaswood obvious, it keeps Australia sustainable, the products last longer than timber and require less maintenance.

How Park Furniture Australia is helping with sustainability

Here at Park Furniture Australia, we believe that no plastic should end up in a landfill in our natural environment. That’s why we are one of Australia’s leading suppliers of sustainable, eco-friendly outdoor furniture and street furniture for a wide range of urban environments. Our drive and passion are to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

Please click here to view our extensive range of ECOPLASWOOD recycled park and street furniture or feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124.

To sustain is to endure, to be able to maintain something at a certain rate or level for a prolonged period of time.

Sustainability is about maintaining an ecological balance and ensuring that future generations can maintain this balance as our planet evolves.

Over the centuries, since humans came to the forefront of being the dominant species, we have seen decimation of our planet at unprecedented levels. We do however appear to be smart creatures, we can work out how to solve so many problems by using the raw materials and skills available to us. But our ingenuity comes at a cost. We’ve been so busy patting ourselves on the backs about all of our new fandangle methods, practices, inventions and profitable outcomes that we didn’t realise that we were making bigger problems for ourselves down the track, hence the vey definition of “unsustainable”. 

This leaves us in a position where we need to bring “balance” into the forefront to work out what the level or rate of our production and consumption cycles we can sustainably maintain. The crux of the problem is that:-

Our raw material choices need to change, our processes need to change and our viewpoint on how we do business needs to change.

From a manufacturing perspective you can:-

• Choose to manufacture products from truly sustainable sources
• Re-engineer your products to minimise waste and be very efficient with your team’s skills
• Update your equipment to move away from the old diesel and electricity chewing dinosaurs you may have used in the past.
• Choose components that come from a location that is closer to you – to avoid so many air/truck miles it has to travel to get to your premises.
• Train your team to improve quality to avoid returns, this increases rework
• Recycle waste or donate/sell to platforms like Aspire
• Minimise the printing you do in house
• Switch to digital marketing practices wherever possible

At Park Furniture Australia we built our business on the back of the fact that we truly believe that choosing recycled and reconstituted plastic bags as the raw material for our outdoor furniture products is the very best option we have in this market.

Our oceans and landfills are jam packed with plastic bags. Our Ecoplaswood product is made directly from these old discarded single use plastic bags. This plastic is made up of a molecular structure that is essentially strong if combined. The outcome for us is that the inherent strength in the plastic slats we manufacture is incredible. So we take what is essentially the worst rubbish we can find and use that to make beautiful, robust, well designed and comfortable outdoor furniture for public spaces that stand the test of time. We think it’s a winning formula.

We walk our talk at Park Furniture and we are proud of what we have achieved. As a rapidly growing company we hope to bring sustainable park furniture to many more clients in the next few years.

How Park Furniture Australia is helping with sustainability

Here at Park Furniture Australia, we believe that no plastic should end up in a landfill in our natural environment. That’s why we are one of Australia’s leading suppliers of sustainable, eco-friendly outdoor furniture and street furniture for a wide range of urban environments. Our drive and passion are to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

Please click here to view our extensive range of ECOPLASWOOD recycled park and street furniture or feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124.

Covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, ANZPAC is the first Plastics Pact in the Oceania region and the second regional Plastics Pact to become part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. With Pacts in Africa, Europe, North America and South America, this network is a globally aligned response to plastic waste and pollution.

With over 100 Member organisations including retail giants such as Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and more, working together from across all three geographies and covering the entire plastics value chain, ANZPAC and its Members are committed to achieving four ambitious and concrete Regional Plastics Targets by 2025.

Moving towards a sustainable future

Companies that are a part of this pact will need to abide by its guidelines till 2025. The goal of this pact is to dramatically reduce plastic waste in both packaging and products. These companies will strive to move towards a more sustainable model by adopting compostable, recyclable, and reusable plastics.

Each company has a target that they aim to achieve by 2025. The main target is to use 100% recyclable plastic packaging. The businesses that are included in this pact will also try to recycle at least 25% of the plastic waste that they produce each year. This is a significant step towards reducing and ultimately nullifying the harm that is being done to the environment due to plastic waste.

In the past, the problem of plastic waste was largely ignored by large corporations and governments in Australia and many countries worldwide. So, this pact represents a general shift of mindset regarding the problem of plastic waste. Increasingly, many companies and governments now see this as a major issue and are working towards a more sustainable future and greener planet.

How Park Furniture Australia is helping with sustainability

Here at Park Furniture Australia, we believe that no plastic should end up in landfill in our natural environment. That’s why we are one of Australia’s leading suppliers of sustainable, eco-friendly outdoor furniture and street furniture for a wide range of urban environments. Our drive and passion is to make Australia more sustainable for future generations.

Please click here to view our extensive range of ECOPLASWOOD recycled park and street furniture or feel free to call the friendly Park Furniture team on 1300 968 124.