MillerKnoll has expanded its use of ocean bound plastic waste in its Herman Miller Sayl chair.
Sayl will now include up to 1.36kg of plastic waste found near waterways. This change builds upon the momentum created by the introduction of ocean-plastic in the Aeron chair in 2021 and will divert 95 metric tons, the equivalent of approximately 9.6 million plastic water bottles, from the ocean annually.
The company wants to increase recycled content to at least 50%, including the use of ocean-bound plastic, across all material it uses by 2030.
The company says that across all products it is diverting 234 metric tons of ocean-bound plastic, the equivalent of 23 million water bottles, a year.
Since its introduction in 2010, Yves Béhar’s design was specifically created to use less material. Additionally, the chair is 92% recyclable at the end of life.
‘Charles Eames once said “Design is never done.” That is true for the Sayl chair as improvements continue to be made years and years after launch. It was designed from the start as a light, simple, and lower carbon footprint chair in the full-featured task chairs category. And now, years after its launch I’m excited to see Sayl manufactured in recycled plastic diverted from rivers and oceans as the next step in bettering the design,’ says Béhar.
