Wall guards and corner guards don't make for particularly compelling architecture by themselves. Most people don't pay attention to them. They are an element in hospitals and offices, particularly where there is high traffic, to protect the walls from damage. And they are often made of PVC plastics.
Rather than being manufactured with PVC plastic, Arden Architectural
Specialties has introduced a line of wall-and
corner-guards that is made from corn-based biopolymers. Not only does
this reduce the toxic byproducts of vinyl manufacture, and require less
energy overall for the manufacture, but the end product is also stronger
and more damage resistant, and is easy to recycle at the end of it's life.
Finding yet another non-food use for corn is not without its drawbacks. But finding a substitute for PVC and helping to reduce dioxin pollution are a positive step that EcoGeeks are in favor of. We're hoping this is just the beginning of this trend. Bio-plastics should be showing up in everything from pipes to food packaging in the near future.
via: Architectural Products magazine
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written by James, June 26, 2007
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written by Aurelien, June 27, 2007
Way to go anyway!
Aurelien
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written by Brian Thorsteinson, January 26, 2008
I love to sell new products that have a chance to changeand aid our way of life.
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