GREEN THUMB

One of the primary business philosophies of Cohens has been to recycle, our mandate is to reduce the waste that ends up in our landfills. All of our five Companies practiced and have achieved the highest levels of recycling within industry.

Our store not only retails new furniture, but promotes the use of used, eliminating the carbon footprint from the manufacturing new products in our environment. We also have a used furniture buyback program, that enables companies and individuals to help purchase new furniture, and also enables other companies to purchase there used furniture at a discounted prices, in many cases keeping it out of our landfills. When furniture has had its end of life, and cannot be resold we will dispose of it in the most environmentally friendly way, i.e. Separation of the steel from other materials for recycling. We have designed and promoted the use of used materials in four of our new buildings. The following are some of the initiatives that were instituted.

1. Use of crushed concrete under parking areas from our demolitions
2. All the interior lighting in our new buildings are reused
3. All railings are reused
4. Glass blocks reused
5. All interior doors and Hardware
6. All the carpeting
7. All of our offices are used furniture

Great attention was taken to use recycle products, to demonstrate what can be done when the will is there to use recycled goods in new buildings. We hope that you will take the opportunity to visit our site and ask for a tour of our facilities.

The Cohen AIM facility is the state of the art facility recycling furious and non furious metals. The site is located to the south of the furniture store and is open daily to assist in all you recycling needs please call for a guided tour of this facility.

Gary Colautti