sustainability

do you need this?

The relationship between manufacturers and consumers.

The environment we all love to enjoy is just SO important to us, any negative impact we have on this delicate system as a manufacturing company hurts us all.

It’s always a good idea to ask ourselves “do I need this?” or “will I really use this?” – The consumer drives the manufacturer.

At LOFI we are always looking for better ways of doing things, and making things. It’s not always easy, especially as a small manufacturer working with relatively low volumes, but we’re trying.

what we're doing

How we are keeping small.

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Website

Having a website on the internet can be hugely damaging to the environment. Keeping any server up and running, as well as database and image storage requires huge amounts of electricity. 40% of this energy goes into keeping the servers cooled!

The LOFI web-server is running on 300% renewable energy, meaning for every KW used, we’re putting another 2KW of green energy into the grid.

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Energy

The LOFI workshop in West Wales is where our stoves are assembled, along with many of our smaller manufacturing processes. The workshop is powered using 100% renewable electricity, and we continue to look for ways to reduce the energy and environmental impact of our manufacturing.

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Packaging

We keep our packaging as simple as possible and reuse packaging from our suppliers wherever practical. We avoid unnecessary packaging and use our mesh storage bags to help protect products in transit rather than adding more disposable material.

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Recycled materials

We’d like to use more recycled metals in our products, particularly aluminium and titanium, but sourcing suitable certified material in the relatively small quantities we use remains difficult. Where we can make meaningful improvements, we do. Our rPET mesh is made from 100% post-consumer waste.

circular economy

repair rather than replace

We design LOFI products to last, and wherever possible to be repaired rather than replaced. Parts such as the LOFI Stove fan are accessible and replaceable, so a worn or damaged component doesn’t have to mean throwing away the whole product. When products do reach the end of their useful life, we’ve designed them so they can be disassembled into their component materials.

words from the wise

some things for us to remember.

“Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.”

“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.”