| Once considered a trend, the move to outdoor | | | | products could "quadruple in the next few years." |
| living is now being called a lifestyle. Fueled by the | | | | The challenge for consumers pursuing an outdoor |
| desire to live a healthier lifestyle, consumers are | | | | living lifestyle is to find products that fit their |
| moving outdoors and looking for products that fit | | | | budget, are durable, and earth-friendly. |
| with this new outdoor, healthy lifestyle. | | | | Traditional patio furniture is made either from |
| Environmentally-friendly no longer just applies to | | | | plastic or pressure treated wood products. While |
| products used indoors; consumers are now | | | | inexpensive, plastic is not durable and is often |
| looking for eco-friendly products to use outdoors. | | | | replaced each year generating waste. The safety |
| PolyWood Patio Furniture offers these consumers | | | | of pressure treated wood products has also been |
| an earth-friendly alternative to traditional patio | | | | questioned and many health-risks sited. |
| furniture. PolyWood, a High Density Polyethylene | | | | Additionally neither plastic (usually available only in |
| (HDPE) plastic, is made from 100% recycled | | | | white), nor pressure-treated wood (a |
| materials such as bottles and milk jugs. | | | | non-fashionable green-gray color) provide |
| As consumers spend more time outdoors with | | | | consumers with the same number styles, colors, |
| family, friends and pets, they have begun to think | | | | and designs that a PolyWood product provides. |
| about how safe their backyards are, giving way | | | | Using a patented technology, PolyWood Inc. has |
| to the biggest new twist in outdoor living: the "eco | | | | created a product that is tougher and more |
| chic" movement. Eco Chic marries the desire for | | | | resilient than treated wood, non-toxic to humans |
| earth-friendly products that are fashionable and | | | | and animals as well as lowers worldwide |
| functional. | | | | consumption of hardwood trees. |
| Bruce Butterfield, Research Director at the | | | | Polywoodfurniture provides practitioners of the |
| National Gardening Association, predicts that the | | | | outdoor living lifestyle an affordable, durable, and |
| demand for earth-friendly outdoor and gardening | | | | fashionable product that is environmentally-friendly. |