ECO by Cosentino
Website: http://www.ecobycosentino.com
ECO by Cosentino is a durable surface made of 75% recycled content composed of post-industrial or postconsumer
materials and is bound by an environmentally friendly resin which comes in part from corn oil.
ECO by Cosentino Attributes:
- High performance against staining, scratching and scorching
- Non-porous, does not require sealers
- Available in 10 designer colors
- Available in 63”x 128” slab
- Backed by a 10 year limited warranty
- Building teams can gain up to five points toward LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for a building project with ECO surfacing
There are other eco-friendly surfacing materials in the market today, but no other like ECO by Cosentino. ECO by Cosentino reutilizes materials that have reached the end of their life cycle, thus saving on the creation and consumption of natural resources. Most of the raw materials used in the creation of ECO are:
- Porcelain (porcelain from china, tiles, sinks, toilets and decorative elements)
- Mirror (mirrors salvaged from houses, building and factories)
- Glass (glass from windshields, windows and bottles; granulated glass from consumer recycling practices)
- Corn Based Resin
- Crystallized Ash (industrial furnace residuals from factories in the form of crystallized ash)
- Stone Scraps
A few benefits of consumption of recycled materials:
- Eliminates waste from landfills
- Utilizes less energy in creation of new raw materials
- Brings products back to life
- Less utilization of natural resources and deforestation
- ECO uses products that have reached the end of their lifecycle –materials being used cannot be incorporated in to any other industrial product and would otherwise collect in landfill sites
- Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute. ECO saves on the mining and consumption of natural resources
- The production of Eco is expected to re-use the equivalent of 65 million glass bottles every year
- ECO utilizes close to 2 million standard size bathroom mirrors (10.5 sq ft)
- ECO utilizes the equivalent of 539K sq ft of ceramic material yearly
- ECO utilizes a resin with 22% composition coming from vegetable origin (mainly corn)
A few benefits of using ECO by Cosentino:
- Eliminates waste from landfills
- Utilizes less energy in creation of new raw materials
- Brings products back to life
- Less utilization of natural resources and deforestation
- ECO by Cosentino is Cradle to Cradle + Greenguard certified
Click here to download the Eco By Cosentino Physical Characteristics chart.
Looking for color samples? View ECO colors.
