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Considering long-term consequences of purchases for learning environments is important for more and more child care centres and early years classrooms.
It makes sense. Early years educators by vocation have a long-term perspective – caring for children is nurturing the future.
So to make it easier, we’ve assembled a collection of furnishings, play resources and educational tools that have been designed with long-term impacts in mind under the banner sustainable.
Sustainable can mean different things for different kinds of products for a childcare centre or early years classroom.
But always longevity is key to long term sustainability – there’s a reason why “reuse” and “reduce” comes before “recycle” in the “three r’s” of environmental stewardship. If you can continue to use your furniture or resources, you reduce how much is consumed and how much must go through energy intense recycling.
Really, Louise Kool has prioritized sustainability since our founding almost 60 years ago, long before any of us knew what “eco-friendly,” “environmentally considerate,” or “sustainable practices” meant.
Since our beginnings LKG has:
Today we:
Some of these earth-friendly plastic alternatives include:
In some cases colour uniformity is sacrificed because the manufacturer is committed to using every bit of leftover material. These manufacturers are committed to zero waste in their factories and the off-cuts, small bits and even dust, that usually ends in the garbage gets used for new products.
The trade-off is, sometimes, the end-product has a different shade of brown or the rake is green instead of blue like in our catalogue photograph, without sacrificing integrity or long term quality.
Explore the collection and if you have any suggestions for other sustainable products, you’d like to see, pleas send it to us.
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