| Well, all you environmental enthusiasts will want to | | | | guarantee of performance? There are also innovative |
| pay attention very closely to this innovative, earth | | | | applications being proposed by the inventors of |
| friendly, virtually indestructible product. Quite simply, | | | | Polywood to be used as an artificial reef. The |
| poly-wood or poly lumber is recycled milk jugs and | | | | simplest design would be a box, which can be made |
| plastic containers that would have normally found | | | | in various sizes and with holes of various sizes to |
| their way into our ever growing landfills! The ingenious | | | | accommodate smaller fish. This Poly-wood box could |
| inventors of this product had the future of our | | | | then be anchored in the sand by means of blocks of |
| precious earth in mind when coming up with such a | | | | concrete or old car tires. Tiers of the solid Polywood |
| revolutionary recycled product. Need more | | | | blocks anchored together could make solid reefs, |
| information than that to satisfy the environmentally | | | | which potentially could house oysters, sea grass and |
| consciousness of your mind? Well here we go, the | | | | mussels. In this application Poly-wood has a 60 year |
| plastics recycling infrastructure currently includes 2015 | | | | guaranteed life span. Once the plastic lumber is |
| companies; 1,677 process post-consumer plastics, 207 | | | | extruded and formed into various profiles of lumber it |
| process post-industrial plastics and 131 are brokers | | | | can be sawn, screwed, nailed and drilled just like |
| and exporters. Of the 1,677 post-consumer plastics | | | | wood. Poly-Wood is guaranteed not to rot, splinter or |
| recycling facilities, 1,295 facilities are consolidation | | | | fade and the maintenance on it is virtually NOTHING! |
| facilities while 382 facilities are re-processors that | | | | A little soap and water will do the trick, for stubborn |
| actually grind, wash and palletize the plastics. 265 of | | | | stains bleach and water will take care of it with no |
| the facilities are vertically integrated into product | | | | problem. Goo Gone has been said to even clean stain |
| manufacturing such as Poly-Wood. The Midwestern | | | | off of the furniture! Only minutes of attention and |
| US has the highest concentration of recycling plastics | | | | you have your furniture looking like new again. |
| facilities closely followed by the Southern US. There is | | | | Poly-wood is available in a wide array of products for |
| a growing trend to the demand and use of recycled | | | | your outdoor living space. Adirondack chairs & |
| plastics. Over 1.5 billion pounds of post-consumer | | | | ottomans, tables and dining chairs, gliders, benches, |
| plastic bottles were recycled during 1999 which | | | | chaise lounges, picnic tables, side tables, rockers and |
| accounted for 22 percent (by weight) of all the | | | | the list goes on and on. You can quite easily furnish |
| plastic bottles produced in the United States. Quite | | | | your entire yard, deck, poolside or patio with |
| dramatically, post consumer plastic bottle recycling | | | | furniture designed and built to last a lifetime! You will |
| has increased over the last ten years from 234 million | | | | also find recycled plastic garbage bins, fencing, |
| pounds to over a staggering 1.5 billion pounds. | | | | portable bars and the like. So, when you tired of |
| Recycled plastics such as Poly-Wood contain no toxic | | | | striping, sanding, painting, treating or oiling your |
| preservatives is insect proof, does not promote | | | | outdoor furniture turn to Poly-wood the |
| organic growth and has a superior performance to | | | | environmentally friendly furniture that is forging a |
| the elements even beyond the scope of treated | | | | world of difference for the generations to come. |
| wood says the inventors of this every growing | | | | Poly-Wood truly allows you to Sit Back, Relax and |
| alternative to wood. How's that for a long lasting | | | | Forget about It. |