Algreen: the first environmentally sustainable and formaldehyde-free chipboard made from recycled wastepaper and seaweed-based adhesive for furniture applications.

Algreen的目标是** ** ** ** *实现**天然海藻和废纸**的环境可持续和无甲醛刨花板的开发。**甲醛是一种石化和已知的人类致癌物质** **与儿童哮喘的发展有关（世卫组织）**。商用刨花板使用甲醛将木屑粘合在一起，制成室内/室外家具，如书桌、衣柜、橱柜、床甚至婴儿床。含有甲醛的家具可以持续释放甲醛气体长达10年。Algreen刨花板是一种由海藻和废纸制成的天然无甲醛替代品，即将进入绿色家具市场。这是一个可以松一口气的理由，因为许多人需要在刨花板和其他复合材料产品前屏住呼吸，以免发生反应。家里有太多的有毒化学物质，室内空气质量往往比室外空气污染严重5倍。这导致了化学物质敏感性的大幅上升和儿童哮喘发病率的飙升。**Algreen使用未充分利用的海藻和回收的废纸，使我们的生产具有高度的可扩展性。**回收是一个重要的环境问题，尤其是纸张。这不仅有助于保护对地球可持续发展至关重要的树木，而且每回收一吨纸，还能节省至少3万升水和3000至4000千瓦时的电力。这些钱足够维持一个普通的三居室一整年。生产再生纸还需要降低28-70%的能耗和用水量——毫无疑问，这是对地球更好的选择。然而，纸纤维在被回收**7次**后变得太退化而无法再利用。**为了延长回收废纸的生命周期，**绿绿刨花板回收废纸，不顾其降解，制造可持续发展的家具。同时，海藻养殖业对经济和海洋都有好处。**种植海藻的过程是环保的。除了播种和确保海藻处于清洁的环境之外，海藻通常不需要饲料或额外的照顾。这些植物可以自然生长。海藻养殖场还为幼鱼和甲壳类动物创造了安全和健康的苗圃，这些幼鱼和甲壳类动物以后可以进行商业捕捞或留下以提高野生种群水平。仅仅是海藻养殖场的存在就可以防止在某些区域进行深海拖网捕捞，保护海底。

Algreen aims to **firstly** achieve the development of environmentally sustainable and formaldehyde-free chipboards from **natural seaweed and wastepaper**.**Formaldehyde is a petrochemical and known human carcinogen** **associated with the development of childhood asthma (WHO)**. Commercial chipboards use formaldehyde to glue wood chips together to make indoor/outdoor furniture, such as desks, wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, beds and even baby cribs. Furniture containing formaldehyde can continue **emitting formaldehyde gas for up to 10 years**.Algreen chipboard is a natural and formaldehyde-free alternative made from seaweed and wastepaper soon entering the green furniture market. That's a reason to breathe a sigh of relief, as lots of people would need to hold their breath around chipboard and other composite products for fear of a reaction. There are so many toxic chemicals in homes that **indoor air quality is often up to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air.** This contributes to the large rise in chemical sensitivities and the spike in children's asthma rate.**Algreen uses underused seaweed and recycled wastepaper, making our production highly scalable.** Recycling is a key environmental concern, especially when it comes to paper. Not only does it help to save trees, which is crucial to the sustainability of our planet, but **recycling one tonne of paper**, also saves at least 30,000 litres of water and between 3000 to 4000 kWh of electricity. This is enough to sustain an average three-bedroomed house for a whole year. Producing recycled paper also requires a 28-70% lower energy consumption and uses less water -- there's no doubt it's the better option for the planet.However, the paper fibre becomes too degraded to be reused after being recycled **7 times**. **To extend the lifecycle of recycled wastepaper,** Algreen chipboards recycle wastepaper regardless of degradation to make sustainable furniture.Meanwhile, **the seaweed aquaculture industry is good for the economy and good for the ocean.** The process of growing seaweed is environmentally friendly. Apart from planting the seeds and ensuring the seaweed is in a clean environment, seaweed often does not need feeds or additional attention. The plants can grow naturally. Seaweed farms also create safe and healthy nursery grounds for young fish and crustaceans that can later be commercially harvested or left to improve wild population levels. Merely the presence of seaweed farms can prevent deep-sea bottom trawling in certain areas and protect the seafloor.