Furniture manufacturing giant Heller has announced a new partnership with sustainability tech company Worry Free Plastics. Through Worry Free’s patented enzyme technology, Heller will transform the composition of its entire fleet of furniture and select accessories with 100-percent regenerative, microplastic-free materials. Heller’s entire product line will be crafted to one day undergo depolymerization and become food for microbes and mycelium.
“Our goal was to celebrate the use of plastic in furniture and become the most sustainable furniture brand in the USA. Worry Free made it happen,” says Heller president and CEO John Edelman. “Microplastic-free, regenerative, and recyclable while in many cases using recycled product. Worry Free combined with Heller is an unbeatable match in our fight to end the stigma about using plastic in design.”
“Heller and Worry Free Plastics are committed to ending the microplastic pollution problem created by plastic waste at the end of life,” says Worry Free cofounder and CEO Philip Myers. “Our collaboration with such an iconic brand allows the products you’ve always loved to remain just as strong, durable, and high quality as before, while retaining their recyclability, and now, they will also be completely regenerative into nutrient-rich soil at the end of life, fulfilling the ultimate circular design principles.”