SUPPORTING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY Combating climate change will require economic as well as environmental solutions. Key to that is challenging the traditional accepted model of producing, using, and discarding. A linear consumption model does not help the collected by the council, sorted, cleaned, chipped, race to reach net zero and secure a sustainable and ground into pellets. Specialist companies future. It generates a huge amount of greenhouse then heat these pellets and mould them into gases and waste, whilst putting further strain on plastic planks called pro昀椀les which TDP uses to our planet’s limited resources. make its furniture. Any waste produced during the production process goes back into the The solution is to develop systems that are recycling process. restorative rather than consumptive. In a circular economy we reuse and re-engineer rather than By supporting the circular economy, that means discard, design out waste and ensure materials that fewer trees are cut down to provide timber are fed back into a virtuous circle. for outdoor furniture and far less plastic ends up in land昀椀ll. Our aim is to build on this by creating a TDP’s business model is based on keeping send-back scheme when they reach end of life. materials in the value chain. When someone drops rigid plastic into the recycling bin, it is Product featured: Dovedale Picnic Bench