| Bush Furniture is a leader in the ready-to-assemble | | | | reuse or recycle much of their factory byproducts. |
| (RTA) furniture industry, and especially in modular | | | | The leftover wood chips and sawdust from |
| office furniture. They have been around since 1959, | | | | manufacturing Bush modular office furniture are used |
| and have two business segments: Bush Furniture | | | | for such diverse things as boiler fuel to cow bedding at |
| North America and Bush Furniture Europe. Not only do | | | | local farms. They also reuse and recycle scraps of |
| they mainly distribute in these areas, but they also | | | | paper, plastic, cardboard, light metal and heavy steel. |
| manufacture their goods there as well. Their North | | | | Any large manufacturing machines that are taken out |
| American manufacturing locations include: Jamestown, | | | | of service are stripped down for parts reuse and |
| NY, Little Valley, NY and Erie, Penn. They also have | | | | recycling. Bush even makes their own pallets from |
| two manufacturing plants in Germany. As a US citizen, | | | | factory scraps! Not only in the factories, but also in |
| and especially in these hard economic times, I really like | | | | their offices, unneeded items are recycled; including |
| to see (a support) companies that have products | | | | computer equipment and peripherals, light bulbs and |
| made in the U.S.A. | | | | batteries. |
| They have three main brands: | | | | Besides recycling byproducts from manufacturing Bush |
| - Bush Business Furniture - makes commercial grade | | | | modular office furniture, the company has other green |
| executive and modular office systems. | | | | initiatives. This includes initiatives to cut energy use with |
| - Bush Furniture - high quality RTA furniture for the | | | | weekly energy audits to identify and correct any |
| home; including bedroom, entertainment, storage and | | | | potential energy waste. It also includes sustainability in |
| home office solutions. | | | | their design process. Products are designed to |
| - Röhr - functional and aesthetic commercial-grade | | | | minimize waste creation. Two of their recent green |
| case goods office furniture. | | | | successes includes a 60% reduction in angle-board |
| In their industry, Bush has won numerous industry | | | | material use and a 25% decrease in shrink wrap use |
| awards, many of them for design and achievement. | | | | (by simply switching to high-performance stretch film). |
| But one of the most exciting things about this | | | | This is just a small look at changes that a large |
| company, are their initiatives in recent years to expand | | | | company can make to be environmentally friendly. I |
| their "Green" initiatives. We just recently purchased a | | | | was impressed with the many diverse ways that Bush |
| new office chair that used recycled materials, so this | | | | recycled and reused products as well as ways they |
| type of thing has been on my mind lately, so as we | | | | cut back on their energy use. It made me aware of |
| get ready to set up our new home office, I like that | | | | ways I wasn't familiar with, and made me wonder |
| Bush modular office furniture is environmentally | | | | what else I can do to help the environment. But, the |
| manufactured. | | | | first thing I do know is to support Green U.S |
| Bush is environmentally aware from the beginning to | | | | companies. So when I go shopping for my new office |
| the end of their manufacturing process. They start | | | | furniture, the first thing I am going to do is look at Bush |
| with recycled or recovered wood fiber, and then they | | | | modular office furniture! |