Through the
help of Recycling Furniture Ltd, FIRA are now able to recycle a large
proportion of the furniture they test, rather than sending it to landfill.
Paul Soley, Operations
Manager for FIRA Testing Services said, “At the FIRA testing centre we test thousands
of furniture products to life expectancy and in some cases destruction, testing
them in terms of strength, safety, stability, durability and flammability. This
makes them dangerous for future use, meaning in the past FIRA had no choice but
to dispose of them if they were not collected by the manufacturer.”
FIRA is
acknowledged globally as a leading authority on furniture and flammability
testing, offering testing of furniture, materials and component to British,
European and International Standards. Since 1949, FIRA has developed many of the
test methods which form the basis of furniture standards and regulations, such
as BS 4875 (structural testing of domestic seating), BS 6222 (testing of
domestic and contract kitchens) and BS EN 14073 (office storage furniture
safety testing).
Since FIRA
began working with Recycling Furniture Ltd last summer it has recycled over 400
pieces of furniture, totalling 16,218kg. This has resulted in a saving a
staggering 21,855kg of carbon.
Paul added,
“Sending furniture to landfill creates a huge problem for everyone involved.
Not only does this harm the environment, but it's also a massive waste of
natural resources. Now FIRA are not only disposing of the tested products in a
more convenient way, with Recycling Furniture regularly collecting the products
from us, we are also disposing of the products more responsibly.”
Recycling
Furniture can recycle 98% of any item of furniture that they collect from FIRA,
breaking down the products into each of its different components for recycling.
Furniture is notoriously difficult to dispose of, especially products such as
office chairs which contain many different elements and can be difficult to disassemble.
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