Paint Your Patio Green with Eco Furniture

Wanna lounge through summer with a greener conscience? Ease into the sustainable selections from Loll Designs. The Minnesota-based outdoor patio furniture company uses 100 percent post-consumer, recycled HDPE (high-density polyethylene), a commonly used plastic resin found in many home products and packaging—from milk jugs, plastic cleaner bottles and detergent containers to garbage cans (often identified by the #2 stamped on the bottom of most plastic items). The only exception: Loll’s black pieces material is post-industrial recycled HDPE (rather than post-consumer).

Didn’t think milk jugs (no, not those ones) offered much of an eco perk? These Loll lovelies are also fashioned using approximately eight recycled milk jugs for every pound of product—helping curb the generated waste that’s tossed in our landfills.

Some of our favorite ones included the notable Cabrio chair, which received Chicago Athenaeum’s Good Design Award last year and was made using 320 recycled milk jugs. Slick, top-seller Adirondack chair includes 400. We also loved the de Luge sunbed in sky blue—a perfect backyard accessory. Equally adorable is the new Coco chair (a collaboration with designer Christopher Douglas) in leaf.

Not recycled enough? Ninety percent of Loll’s manufacturing waste is sent to a recycling plant where it’s made into post-industrial HDPE. Plus, Loll’s colors are fade-, weather- resistant and UV-protected, and, all its products, which contain no new materials, carry the Green America Seal.

Other good deeds: Loll participates in 1% for the Planet and CarbonFund.org and uses recycled packaging. Probably one the coolest things we discovered about the green furniture company is that employees plant tree seedlings for each order received in the previous year. Last year, Loll planted 2,000 to help offset CO2 emissions.

That definitely earns any Loll-owner the right to sit and relax in the mother nature’s backyard.

Photos courtesy of Loll Designs and Apartment Therapy