Our Eco-Friendly Way!
In addition to offering high quality sustainable flooring, Ambient
operates with the environment and health in mind.
VOC LEVELS
Flooring - We provide accurate technical statistics for all of our products. The following are results from a formaldehyde test of our bamboo flooring products. E1- European standards state that formaldehyde contents must be less than 0.10ppm. No-formaldehyde products are also offered for custom orders (like most of competitors.)
1. E-Series Engineered - 0.08ppm
2. S-Series Solid - 0.03ppm
3. Strand woven - 0.01ppm
Moisture barrier VOC Compliancy
1. Titebond 531: 202 g/L
2. Titebond 571: 34 g/L
3. Bostik D288: 126 g/L
Adhesives VOC Compliancy
1. Titebond 741: 0 g/L (35 g/L during cure)
2. Titebond 821: 77 g/L
3. Titebond 811: 65 g/L
4. Bostik D332: 86 g/L
SHIPPING MATERIAL
Packing peanuts- made of organic cornstarch. These peanuts decompose in water leaving no toxic waste. FDA approved.
Stretch wrap- 3% post-industry recycled content.
Boxes- biodegradable and when possible we reuse boxes if they are in good condition.
Corrugated packing material
- 100% recycled content
- Recyclable
Sample Envelopes- The shipping boxes and envelopes we use are manufactured using environmentally friendly methods and are entirely recyclable.
AMBIENT FLOOR CLEANER (see this product)
AFFILIATIONS
BAMBOO FACTS
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth.
A sixty-foot bamboo cut for market takes 59 days to replace. It can be selectively harvested annually and regenerates without replanting.
Bamboo helps reduce carbon dioxide gases.
Some bamboo sequesters up to 12 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare, which makes it a highly efficient plant, and conducive to fresh air. It is known to produce greater biomass and 30% more oxygen than a hardwood forest of comparable size.
Bamboo is a natural water control barrier.
Because of its wide spread root system and large canopy, bamboo greatly reduces rain run off, prevents massive soil erosion, and keeps twice as much water in a watershed. Bamboo helps mitigate water pollution due to its high nitrogen consumption, making it a solution for excess nutrient uptake of wastwater from manufacturing, livestock farming, and sewage treatment.
Bamboo can restore degraded lands.
It is a pioneering plant and can be grown in soil damaged by overgrazing and poor agriculture. Proper harvesting does not kill the bamboo plant, so topsoil is held in place. Because of its dense litter on the forest floor it feeds topsoil, restoring healthy agricultural lands for generations to come.
Eco-costs of shipping across the world: If you live on the West Coast and buy an Oak or Maple floor (which comes from the East), there is more embodied energy in that product than a bamboo floor made near the coast in China and shipped over the water. Ocean freight is simply that much more efficient. And this does not even take into account the fact that the tree cut on the East Coast will take 50 years to grow back whereas the bamboo tree cut in China will take only 5 years to grow back.
OUR FACTORY GROUP
