You don’t need us to tell you that we are in the middle of a climate crisis. But what we can tell you, is that we have a solution that will dramatically improve sustainability in the construction industry enabling all of us to reduce our impact, make a positive difference and help repair some of the damage being done.
So what is our impact?
In 2018/19 Australia generated close to 76 million tonnes of solid waste (10% more than the previous 2 years). As the second biggest contributor, our construction industry generated 12.7 million tons or 16.8% of our country’s total solid waste which includes millions of A1 paper construction drawings*. That’s even more waste than every Australian household combined.
To begin with, Green Bench technology not only saves you time and money, it also saves paper and therefore trees.
So let’s talk about trees. Locally our forests and bushlands are being destroyed at the alarming rate of one MCG-sized area every 2 minutes. Just 50% of Australia’s forests and bushlands remain intact compared with pre-European arrival. Australia has lost 27% of our rainforest, 19% of open forest, 11% of woodland forest and 28% of mallee forest since 1750.
On top of the loss of trees, carbon emissions released by land clearing and forest logging across Australia are equivalent to at least half the carbon pollution of all Australian coal-fired power stations.
At Green Bench our aim is to save much more than just paper and trees. We are actually planting trees too. In fact, for every 100 drawings you upload onto a Green Bench we’ll plant one tree via Ecologi. So together we can not only save trees, we’ll also plant thousands of trees every year. On your behalf, on behalf of the construction industry and on behalf of the planet.
When it comes to sustainability, at Green Bench we save more than just paper.
We only use recycled aluminium in the production of our benches and where possible we produce all our components locally to support local manufacturing and reduce the need for transport.
To ensure longevity we only lease Green Benches. That way we make sure they are regularly maintained, serviced and refurbished to as new condition at the end of each term ready to go to the next job site.
At Green Bench sustainability is at our very core and why we’re doing everything possible to provide a full circle environmental solution from product design and manufacturing, to servicing and green partnerships.
We proudly partner with Ecologi, which was founded to help people tackle the climate crisis.
It’s now common knowledge that one of the best tools to tackle the climate crisis and keep our temperatures from rising above 1.5C is to plant trees. They are also crucial in preventing ecological collapse.
Ecologi plants trees to reduce our carbon footprint. We work with Ecologi to plant one tree for every 100 drawings. Before long, together we’ll have planted a forest that not only reduces our impact on the environment it has a positive, restorative effect on the climate.
Ecologi also funds other crucial climate projects to reduce the planet’s increasing carbon emissions. Via these projects we offset 10kg of carbon with each order.