Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when cutting and processing the stones. Nutcreatives , a Spanish design studio, have solved the latter problem locally, killing two birds with one stone. The solution? -A bench called Relaja , which means ‘relax’ in Spanish…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Relaja, a Locally Produced Bench Made from Recycled Marble from the Canary Islands
