Willow Sustainability

• Salix is the latin word for willow, there are about 400 species of willow in the Salix family.
  
  The willow used for manufacturing is a deciduous shrub grown in crowns or small bushes, Willow is very fast growing and one cut grows back to the same height within a year. Each crown can last upto sixty years before it needs replanting.
  
  
• In the right soil conditions willow tends to decompose much more quickly than traditional materials such as MDF, Hardwoods and Metal.

• Willow is a carbon neutral material and when burnt only gives off the same amount of carbon that it consumes witihn it's lifetime. 

• All of our Willow Coffins are completely natural, there are no chemicals or glues in our coffins. 

• Our Willow Coffins are finished by hand using locally grown willow 5 miles from our facility and workshops.

• willow has many uses and attributes which help the environment, willow is used for:   
  
  biofiltration, constructed wetlands, ecological wastewater treatment, hedges, land reclamation, landscaping, bio engineering, slope stabilisation, soil erosion control.
  
  In addtion willow is a very important habitat to many birds and animals.

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• There is little mechanical processing involved in the growing and processing of willow, making it one of the few truly environmentally renewable resources.
  
  
  
• We believe that our coffins are the ultimate in environmental recycling as willow is a higly renewable crop harvested each year, involves minimal processing, degrades quickly in soil and helps to lock carbon up in its stems.