Tagged: carbon footprint
Antiques sustainable way to have a low carbon footprint
Antiques green alternative to buying new
Antiques are no longer brown, white or any other colour! They’re green!
Buying an antique or vintage piece rather than a new reproduction can save as much as 537kg of carbon dioxide emissions (the equivalent weight of 6 fully grown men).
Antiques 10 times better than new
Figures to indicate how much better for the environment antique & vintage furniture is compared to new furniture has been hard to come by but several articles have popped up recently to highlight this.
Nigel Worboys, a Beaconsfield Antique Dealer quoted in the Antiques Trade Gazette and This is Bristol.co.uk on the launch of a new green initiative says,
“The carbon footprint from antiques’ original production expired a long time ago, and their continued existence has been testament to a life cycle of at least 10 times an equivalent modern item,”
