Polywood Patio Furniture Offers Consumers An Earth-Friendly Alternative

Once considered a trend, the move to outdoor living is now being called a lifestyle. Fueled by the desire to live a healthier lifestyle, consumers are moving outdoors and looking for products that fit with this new outdoor, healthy lifestyle. Environmentally-friendly no longer just applies to products used indoors; consumers are now looking for eco-friendly products to use outdoors. PolyWood Patio Furniture offers these consumers an earth-friendly alternative to traditional patio furniture. PolyWood, a High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, is made from 100% recycled materials such as bottles and milk jugs. As consumers spend more time outdoors with family, friends and pets, they have begun to think about how safe their backyards are, giving way to the biggest new twist in outdoor living: the "eco chic" movement. Eco Chic marries the desire for earth-friendly products that are fashionable and functional.

Bruce Butterfield, Research Director at the National Gardening Association, predicts that the demand for earth-friendly outdoor and gardening products could "quadruple in the next few years." The challenge for consumers pursuing an outdoor living lifestyle is to find products that fit their budget, are durable, and earth-friendly. Traditional patio furniture is made either from plastic or pressure treated wood products. While inexpensive, plastic is not durable and is often replaced each year generating waste. The safety of pressure treated wood products has also been questioned and many health-risks sited. Additionally neither plastic (usually available only in white), nor pressure-treated wood (a non-fashionable green-gray color) provide consumers with the same number styles, colors, and designs that a PolyWood product provides. Using a patented technology, PolyWood Inc. has created a product that is tougher and more resilient than treated wood, non-toxic to humans and animals as well as lowers worldwide consumption of hardwood trees. Polywood furniture provides practitioners of the outdoor living lifestyle an affordable, durable, and fashionable product that is environmentally-friendly.