• Wood-Free Material:  Reforest Design uses bamboo (a grass), which has greater strength than most hardwoods, is naturally anti-bacterial, can be harvested within 1-5 years, grows back when cut, and produces 30 percent more oxygen than a tree during its lifespan. Bamboo helps us preserve forests, no trees are harmed by our furniture.

• Natural Finishes: The protective solution used on all bamboo surfaces is a plant-based oil-wax polish. It is applied by hand with a cloth, and could easily by re-applied in the future without the hassle of sanding. Most finishes in the industry are made of toxic urethanes that make restoration inconvenient, resulting with furniture in our landfills. Our non-toxic user-friendly finishes make it easy to care for furniture over the years, no professional help necessary.

• Quality Materials & Hardware: Bamboo has the compressive strength of concrete and tensile strength of steel; compressed into a sheet material, it is close to invincible. Each part is made of a solid thick slab that could be sanded down over time to remove any dings or scratches. The slabs are matched with simple hardware of the best quality to ensure lifetime durability.
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• Design Evolution through Research: This business is just a seed and counts strongly on consumer input to design pillars for the sustainable ground. All designs are shaped by consumer needs & the earths needs; listening and learning becomes our expertise. This also means that our designs will always be changing with those needs. Unlike most businesses, Reforest Design is well equipped for change and it truly makes it stronger. Tell us what you seek, tell us your story. 

• Lifetime Repair Service: Each major part of the furniture does not attach permanently (with glue), it uses hardware. This allows each piece to come apart for refinishing or replacing. Imagine an easy and convenient solution to a broken table leg; this furniture will last generations. A lifetime product may be hard to imagine with the ever-changing needs of our society, and in turn design, but we accept this reality and use it to our advantage. To offer a timeless product, all our furniture is designed for CNC machine production. In the future, each part will have a code so it could be reproduced even hundreds of years from now. Even if you are tired of your wonky legged 50 year old table, the leg could be replaced and given to someone who needs it - not the landfill.

Lifetime Warranty: All manufacturing defects are covered by our warranty. This does not include regular wear & tear, abuse or weathering. Please not not hesitate to inquire of the details, even if it is a piece you've owned for many years. We would like to support you as best as we can.

Free Shipping: A part of sustainability is learning your needs and undoubtedly, shipping fees are intimidating and often misleading. When your package weights 65lbs, it is natural to fear the shipping fee. To make your life a little easier, offer instant transparency for relief, and free you of the time you will spend making calculations, we account for shipping fees in our price. International fees do not include duties & taxes.

• Zero-Waste Design: All furniture is specially designed to reduce the 9.8 million tons of furniture waste that is created every year. The signature design of 'Lifetime Repair Service' parts allows for a product that will last centuries. Reforest Design furniture does not end up in the landfill. On the studio end, all bamboo waste is repurposed; many scraps are used for small projects and the ones that are too small are used to heat a cabin in the winter.

• Carbon-Neutral: One of our sustainable missions is to preserve our forests. Unfortunately, as most businesses, we still carry a carbon footprint through shipping practices. To offset our carbon footprint we will donate yearly to tree-planting organizations.
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• Locally Manufactured: All of our furniture is handcrafted on Salt Spring Island, BC in Canada with some help from a CNC machine.
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Standard Definition

"Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social"

What this means

This means that we need to take care of ourselves, earth and profits, without compromising the future of our children. We see it as an opportunity to build new values that align the pillars equally.

Currently, the economic pillar stands tall and proud with it's peak brushing the clouds. The social pillar, only a few feet off the ground, looks up at the powerful structure in wonder of the feeling the clouds could offer. Below, the environmental pillar calls for attention with its peak just barely breaking the soil, but no one looks down.

Sustainability is a new concept, and it's understanding is both lost and misinterpreted by most individuals. As such, labelling businesses, products or services as "sustainable" is often misleading.

More research is needed for a better understanding.