Rainforests around the world are disappearing at a frightening pace, when the looming spectre of Climate Change should have the governments of every country falling over themselves to protect their natural resources while they still can.
Watching documentaries and reading stories about this subject, one often feels a sense of hopeless resignation. Everyone knows what is happening, and what is coming, but the world seems powerless to address it. Ordinary people struggle to change their lifestyle while any changes appear a drop in the ocean compared with the rapacious consumption of the developed world, and ever increasingly the developing nations.
However, alternatives are there, today, which if utilised on a global scale would allow us to pass a planet worth living on to our childrens children.
For example, in a classic case of killing two birds with one stone, recycled plastic lumber exists as a viable alternative to virgin timber on the mass market. The production of these Recycled Composite Profiles diverts plastic waste from a future decomposing in a landfill site, and creates a durable, non-slip, water and insect resistant, vandal proof, crack and splinter proof alternative to wood, with significantly lower whole life costs than wood.
We here at Low Carbon Products are working tirelessly to develop new markets for our recycled plastic lumber, and are always innovating in our product design to make recycled products as desirable and useful as possible because as far as we can see, there is no reason every construction project should not make use of the recycled alternatives available.
