About

“Sustainable Materials” is an effort designed to highlight sustainable raw materials and products that are created from them. Cumulatively, we have been involved in sustainable materials for decades, from researching and educating, to testing, to sourcing, and what we have found is that there is no real source for highlighting what is sustainable and what is not.

When it comes to raw materials, rarely are those materials NOT processed into something else, in essence, an ingredient or component used to make another product. Processing is critical. To really understand if a product is truly sustainable, as opposed to being a product that uses sustainable material as a base input, you must understand what needs to happen to convert the raw material into a finished product. As a fact finder, it is our goal is add validity to understanding sustainability. In essence, just because a product is made with a sustainable raw material like bamboo, it doesn’t mean that the product is sustainable, or the company supplying or selling the product is sustainable either.