TAKE BACK, RECYCLING & SALVAGE PROGRAM

Green furniture manufacturer Trinity Furniture announces their new guaranteed buy-back program, designed to ensure continuous use of their furniture pieces throughout many generations.

As Face Lift seating products reach the end of their lifecycle, Trinity Furniture offers a service to reclaim them for recycling and salvage. Furniture can be disassembled into individual components and shipped back to our facility for processing. This is possible because of the methods used during the manufacturing process whereby components are attached together with machine screws and T-nuts.

These salvaged components are then either recycled for their respective raw materials, or refurbished for reuse in new products.

The program works by allowing the customer to request a buy-back from Trinity when the reasonable lifespan of the Face Lift piece has been reached with the goal to keep the furniture or the materials within use and not in a landfill. "It’s a cradle-to-cradle concept but with the added benefit of ensuring a piece will get used by others for many generations" says founder Jorge Lagueruela.

Trinity says it expects to create awareness amongst its customers around the importance of the creation-disposal cycle of the products they buy. The responsibility is being shared by Trinity and the customer in this case, but the hope, says Trinity management, is to initiate awareness amongst customers as well to take into account lifespan responsibility for all their purchases.

According to the company the reclaimed piece will either be restored/renewed or sent to the factory to have the raw materials reused in new pieces of furniture. "We hope that the vast majority of our customers will never feel the need to use this service, but we want it to be available regardless.