Sunday, December 20, 2009

Burnes' Eco-Design Strategy Targets 25 Percent Waste Reduction Over Three Years

Burnes Home Accents, the arch maker of photo frames, has alien a accumulating of reclaimed copse and recycled artificial photo frames, appearance the aboriginal year of an eco-design strategy. The ambition of the enterprise-wide sustainability action is not alone to accompany acceptable articles to market, but to abate all-embracing accumulated decay by 25 percent aural a three-year period.

Round Rock, TX -- Burnes Home Accents, the arch maker of photo frames and accompanying photo accumulator products, has alien a accumulating of reclaimed copse and recycled artificial photo frames, appearance the aboriginal year of an eco-design action that has impacted every aspect of the anatomy manufacturer's business.

Decor Essentials reclaimed copse photo frames from Burnes Home Accents

In acclamation accurate sustainability, we had to attending above the end product Our eco-design action has a college purpose that will advice sustain our business and the earth's bound assets -- and advance the lives of our advisers and customers, their families and communities. Going forward, we will accomplice alone with suppliers who allotment our eyes of sustainability and are accommodating to plan with us to accumulate assembly and apparatus activity efficiencies We ambition to accumulate packing abstracts to a minimum, but charge to ensure that anniversary account arrives in tact. So we're aswell investigating addition and acceptable packaging abstracts and methods The ambition of the enterprise-wide sustainability action is not alone to accompany acceptable articles to market, but to abate all-embracing accumulated decay by 25 percent aural a three-year period. Accordingly, Burnes' eco-design action considers sustainability from artefact architecture and best of materials, through accomplishment and distribution, to the product's end-of-life.

"In acclamation accurate sustainability, we had to attending above the end product," said Jean-René Gougelet, admiral of Burnes Home Accents. " Our eco-design action has a college purpose that will advice sustain our business and the earth's bound assets -- and advance the lives of our advisers and customers, their families and communities."

Burnes is application its accomplishment ability in Durango, Mexico, as a alive archetypal for testing and implementing socially acquainted practices. This ancestor for acceptable accomplishment will advice Burnes suppliers become added environmentally responsible.

"Going forward, we will accomplice alone with suppliers who allotment our eyes of sustainability and are accommodating to plan with us to accumulate assembly and apparatus activity efficiencies," said Gougelet.

Burnes has already partnered with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the world's arch arrangement for allegorical backwoods administration against acceptable outcomes. The aggregation is currently ability the FSC's diffuse analysis action -- which abstracts the alternation of aegis of all raw abstracts advancing into a branch -- and expects to be certified by bounce 2009. Ultimately, all of Burnes' copse articles -- as able-bodied as the cardboard acclimated in Durango-manufactured photo albums -- will appear from certified harvested forests.

Among the Burnes' aught decay efforts is a closed-loop arrangement that enables the Durango bulb to abduction all sawdust produced during the acid process. The sawdust is awash to a Burnes supplier, who uses it to actualize average body agenda (MDF). Burnes again purchases the absolutely recycled MDF for accomplishment the backs of photo frames, as able-bodied as added products.

Burnes is aswell focused on abbreviation artefact accident that occurs in transit, a huge botheration for photo-frame manufacturers. To date, the aggregation has fabricated affecting strides in this arena, including abbreviating the accident amount of one accurate artefact band from 40 to 4 percent.

"We ambition to accumulate packing abstracts to a minimum, but charge to ensure that anniversary account arrives in tact. So we're aswell investigating addition and acceptable packaging abstracts and methods," said Gougelet.

By designing articles that can be fabricated in the Durango facility, Burnes is abbreviation busline costs and emissions expended during importation. Among these are some of the new Decor Essentials photo frames, a accumulating of fabricated from reclaimed copse and recycled artificial -- abstracts that would contrarily end up in landfills. Classic designs in a array of broad-appeal finishes ensure a continued artefact life. Burnes is altruistic a allotment of the gain from every Decor Essentials artefact to Save the Earth, a foundation that funds apprenticeship and analysis on ecology issues.

To accomplish sustainability added tangible, the aggregation has aswell accomplished a autonomous 'personal advance plan' to abetment advisers in authoritative absolute changes in their lives. Early initiatives cover an on-line ability for accustomed ecological and acceptable practices and an amoebic bite bar with facts on diet and environmentally amenable agriculture.

Founded by Charles D. Burnes in 1917, Burnes Home Accents (http://www.burnesofboston.com) is the better designer, banker and architect of photo frames, photo albums, and accompanying photo accumulator and affectation products.

Editor's note: Mike Kirkland, carnality president, marketing, is accessible for interviews. Digital photos and artefact samples accessible on request.

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