Product Stewardship
Planex products are designed to last a lifetime. Planex wants to ensure our products remain within the circular economy and avoid contributing to landfill.
Our products’ longevity is supported by thoughtful design and manufacturing methods using Australian steel, long-lasting components, and minimal bonding for simple disassembly. When the time is reached for parting with our products, our Stewardship Policy guides our practices and supports the return of products for recycling. Our built-out obsolescence test is applied to every product to ensure longevity. The test provides decades of functionality and is the opposite of inbuilt obsolescence, which has product failure purposely built in to promote the manufacture of brand-new products.
Our goal is to provide opportunities to reuse, repurpose/reconfigure as the priorities; recycling is a last resort. Planex works with Egans Asset Management’s WISE program to salvage our items in an environmentally friendly way. Egans can be contacted to arrange an assessment of the items to be salvaged. This is done on a case-by-case basis, to identify the appropriate action required with a priority to resell and reuse the items. Repair to resell is also possible. Egans will provide the customer with a report outlining the environmental benefits attained through the reuse repurpose or recycling of the furniture. Please contact Planex for more information.
