Fast Furniture: Why It’s Bad For You

The trend of fast fashion has expanded to the furniture industry. Very much like in fashion, the culture of fast furniture encourages people to constantly update their decor to the latest trends and get rid of the previous. The low quality of this kind of products makes it very cheap and easily disposable. Compared to the starting price repairs and not worth it, so most people just throw them away.

Why is it so difficult to recycle furniture?

The problem of throwing away such pieces is that properly disposing of them is nearly impossibile. The main factor is what they are made of, many different materials compose these furniture pieces. Because of time and cost recycling ♻️ is not a likely option.

 What can be done?

Reducing furniture waste can be done by adopting circular economy principles, for example IKEA is testing a buy-back scheme to resell furniture that still is in good conditions and recycle worn out or brokers pieces into new Ikea furniture.

On a personal level people can resell on many online platforms, making someone’s waste another’s

Biosofas approach to the waste crisis.

Co-founder Davide said: “It is not the end user who should think about the discarding. It must be the enterprise who produces the item”. This is why we produce 100% natural sofas that even if discarded in landfill, won’t harm the planet.