BuroTree

About

Buro Tree

Wondering what makes the
Buro Tree better than a
conventional pine tree?

Beyond good looks, the Buro Trees
have been designed and made with a
far smaller ecological footprint. And if
you buy one, your Christmas footprint continues to shrink when you reuse
your tree year after year. While the
pine tree sure looks lovely and smells
like Christmas tradition, the darker side
is that it takes five times the energy
and water to grow each year according
to an independent audit. When it
comes the time to haul your pine tree
out onto the footpath, it goes onto
create landfill and the cycle of wasteful consumption continues…

The Buro Trees are made with 100% environmentally considered ingredients. To make the Buro Trees, a low-energy production technique has been used and waste material minimised. 
 

The Trees can be flat-packed for ultimate transporting and storage convenience and lower transport emissions. So we’re not asking you 
to give up your Christmas icon, we’re just offering a much more sustainable way to celebrate...

Speaking of celebrating, the Christmas Tree most of us know (Norwegian Spruce), actually originated from the Pagan Winter Festival which became
a part of the Christian calendar. So our three trees take their inspiration from
the three wives of pagan God Odin,
the father of all gods in Norse mythology... We bring you Rindd,
Gryder and Frigg.

The Rindd Buro Tree was the proud recipient of a Premiers Design award
in 2008.

ENVIRONMENT

The Buro Trees have been designed
for sustainability along every step of
the supply chain — from the raw material via production through to the customer. The design process realised the challenge of minimizing waste in
the cutting template through a clever layout of interlocking the forms. The CNC routing process employed to trim the trees is a low-energy process that allowed for batch production that can
be matched to consumer demand for just-in-time production.

The Buro trees are made from locally produced plantation-pine plywood
which is durable, attractive and a
more sustainable that all other viable alternatives. The plywood had been enhanced and protected with non-toxic linseed and citronella oils. The urge to save money and produce offshore was resisted so the Trees are crafted by a local Melbourne manufacturer.
While the transport emissions have
been minimised, so has the packaging
in a quest for dematerialisation.

Based on the Life Cycle Assessment report (conducted Black Panda — Nick Johns), the plywood Christmas Trees designed by Buro North creates a significantly smaller ecological
burden when compared against
the consumption of traditional pine Christmas trees (see below). In the time five pine trees are grown, transported, purchased, maintained and disposed of, the resource wastage and transport emissions cause significant destruction to the to the natural environment and deplete natural resources.

Over the same five-year period,
the repeated use of the plywood alternative creates zero solid waste.
The two dimensional design can be flat packed for easy storage between uses. While the Buro Trees clearly out-perform the traditional pine tree over a five-year period, the ecological benefits of the Buro trees will be realised for as long
as you appreciate and enjoy its design. We like to think of it akin to Danish furniture — Buy it once and love it forever, then hand it down through
the family...

5 Year Life Cycle Comparison – Plywood Tree vs Pine Tree
5 Year Life Cycle Comparison – Plywood Tree vs Pine Tree

Download complete life-cycle audit

Production

 

Büro North

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