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What is Ecoplaswood?

Our vision is to make beautiful outdoor furniture out of truly sustainably sourced raw materials. We all know that the soft plastic and plastic waste problem is monumental and we all know that plastic can be quite easily recycled into useful hardy products. This is why we choose to manufacture our timber slat look products…

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.

Why we choose sustainable park furniture

Sustainability is the buzz word of the decade but what does it really mean? What does it mean to commercial companies and how can businesses start to choose differently to help work towards a more sustainable goal and vision?

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.

Building a circular economy for recycling plastics

The ANZPAC Plastics Pact (ANZPAC) is a collaborative solution that brings together key players behind a shared vision of a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

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.

Centenary Memorial Gardens

PROJECT: Centenary Memorial Gardens Outdoor Area upgradeCLIENT: Centenary Memorial GardensSCOPE OF WORKS: Upgrade the outdoor furniture in the grounds.

Centenary Memorial Gardens is known as one of Queensland’s most beautiful memorial spaces and they required some durable, comfortable and easy to maintain outdoor furniture. We supplied them with park seats and park benches.

“A few years ago, we found Park Furniture Australia online after a quick search for recycled plastic outdoor furniture.

We wanted a range of outdoor furniture that would require minimal maintenance and still look really good. The products are just fabulous, they are durable, strong and look stunning, plus it is environmentally friendly – which is a bonus.

This is not our first job with Park Furniture Australia, over the past few years the team have supplied us with multiple outdoor seating solutions. We keep going back to them because we really like their product, it looks fantastic but our main reason to keep coming back to them is mostly because their service is impeccable and they make us feel like we are heard and respected as people. We cannot fault either their product or their service.

Throughout the ordering and manufacturing process Scott and Craig kept in close contact with the Landscapers as they needed to finish their portion of the works prior to installation of the furniture, specifically the concrete. We were really impressed with this and it made the process so much easier.

Park Furniture Australia has just brought out a new colour range which we really liked and so we chose our latest bench products to be manufactured in the new colours which look absolutely superb. Scott and Craig were really helpful with the colour selections, helping us to match to existing.

Then when it came to the install they were there during and then afterwards to clean the products ready for use. We are just really happy with the end product and the ongoing relationship we are forging with them.

We are extremely happy with the final outcome and would be more than happy to recommend Park Furniture Australia as our outdoor furniture supplier of choice both now and into the future.”

” The Park Furniture products are just fabulous, they are durable, strong and look stunning, plus it is environmentally friendly. “

Hilliard State School

PROJECT: Campus seating replacementCLIENT: Hilliard State SchoolSCOPE OF WORKS: New outdoor furniture for school area

Hilliard State School is a Coeducation primary school which is nestled in the vibrant and large suburb of Alexandra Hills on South Brisbane’s Bayside.

The time had come for some new outdoor furniture at Hilliard State School which sparked the P & C into action to raise some funds to procure some new benches and sunbeds for the students to utilise.

A short google search led them to Park Furniture Australia where they were pleased to see the range of recycled plastic furniture on offer. Some time ago the school implemented their School Environment Management Plan which aims to reduce the footprint made by the school. By choosing recycled plastic furniture they see this as a win in two parts:

The raw product is sustainably sourced, in fact it is remade plastic bags, something that the primary aged kids at school can relate to.

The ongoing maintenance of these benches and sunbeds is minimal which means that we do not have to use chemicals or manpower to maintain the product in the playground.

A school representative spoke with Park Furniture Australia. “Our kids really enjoy these seats and we see them playing in and around the area where all nine seats are situated. They really get a lot of use out of them every day.”

The process behind selecting the product, working out the customisations and then placing the order all the way through to installation was really smooth. We did hit a road bump with the powder coating lead time but Park Furniture Australia kept us in the loop for the entire duration and they could not have been more helpful.

Cerdon College

PROJECT: Campus seating replacementCLIENT: Cerdon CollegeSCOPE OF WORKS: Custom manufacture 16 standard outdoor settings, 4 quad outdoor settings, & 2 1800 park seats all in a custom colour – Woodland Grey

Safety is a priority at Cerdon College, so when the old picnic settings and bench seats started to show signs of wear and tear and rust, the time had come for an investment in some new robust and low maintenance and sustainable outdoor furniture.

After researching a number of options, Christina Posavec the college’s trusty financial controller located Park Furniture Australia. Initially, she had not heard of the company before but she liked the look of the product and decided to connect. Her initial hesitancy of choosing a new supplier for the college was soon quashed by the customer service that the team at Park Furniture displayed as well as the speed of their response. So great product, great customer service and speedy response times.

Christina stated “It took a little time to get the project underway from our end, but the Park Furniture Australia team were patient with me and answered all of my questions, especially about the colours.” The school has a specific set of colours that they wanted the furniture to match. Park Furniture Australia have 5 key slat colours to choose from and an ability to completely customise the powdercoat colour of the frames and feet. The Park Furniture Australia team were able to match their “Woodland Grey” colour scheme exactly. “They look so good and are much cleaner and nicer than what we had in place before” said Christina. “We really like the fact that they are low maintenance, so do our groundskeepers’”.

The 20 Outdoor Settings and 2 Bench Seats were delivered flat packed but with explicit instructions on assembly. The team at Park Furniture Australia are conscious that most clients will not have a forklift or way to unload trucks and so they arranged all of the right transport options and helped to deliver the packs to our grounds team with absolutely no issues. Then the grounds team easily assembled the settings. “I was really grateful for their extra efforts in making this part as smooth as possible, so were the grounds team.”

The College is really happy with the final results, the seats are very comfortable, really strong and we don’t need to do a lot to keep them looking brand spanking new. Park Furniture Australia overmet our expectations and we are extremely happy with the outcome.

We have already requested another quote for some more outdoor furniture around the college and we now see Park Furniture Australia as our “go-to” team for great quality affordable and durable furniture.

Cerdon College happily endorses the Park Furniture Australia brand and their customer service.