Meet Pollima!
Los Angeles, California: Pollima, the world’s first carbon-dioxide negative furniture company. We build beautiful furniture pieces that not only look luxurious, they come with the luxury of knowing that with every purchase, you are not harming the environment, in fact, you're helping!
Pollima - a public benefit corporation - was created to reduce deforestation and prevent unnecessary carbon dioxide release. We capture the sequestered carbon in hemp byproduct. Byproduct that would otherwise be discarded and release its stored carbon into the atmosphere in the form of CO2 through biodegradation or incineration. To prevent this, we utilize that stored carbon; making it into stunning, iconic furniture for the climate-crisis era. We want to catalyze a carbon negative consumer paradigm shift toward the circular economy.
The process is a revolution in furniture manufacturing:
The byproduct is pressed with 170 tons of pressure to make a new material that is more durable than wood, so your furniture will last generations - without harming a single tree.
The proprietary material is completely biodegradable and uses no resin, no plastic, no trees, and the production is waste-free.
Deforestation is a leading cause of climate change - we want no part of it.
About Our Designs
Designed in New York by Zac Feltoon, the designs reflect the natural biology and ethos of turning waste into beauty. Pollima’s mission is to change processes of production and consumption, with a focus on working with nature rather than against it. “I was inspired by the concept of low impact,” Says Feltoon, “so I designed the table profile to evoke the classic shape of sailboat hulls which glide seamlessly through water with little resistance.”
The founder and CEO sees beauty and profit where others see stuff to send to the landfill. “I realized that the ever-growing cannabis industry has byproducts that we could turn into elevated and nuanced designs - while creating an example for the circular economy in the US” says Pollima CEO Ardilla Deneys.
We offer furniture to customers who are looking for earth-conscious products but don’t want antiques or thrift store finds. Our furniture longs to live in a light-filled and adventurous home.
About Our CEO Ardilla Deneys
Pollima was born because Founder and CEO Ardilla Deneys couldn’t find furniture to use in architectural projects that wasn't carbon heavy and toxic. Nationwide, the demolition of buildings and their interiors sends more than 548 million tons of waste to landfills annually, more than twice the amount of waste generated through municipal solid waste. Deneys saw the carbon footprint of these products and thought that sending them to landfill was completely irresponsible. She wanted to create products that took more carbon out of the air than they created.
Yet she had to think outside of the box because designing furniture from wood wasn’t an option for her. She grew up in Kentucky with her adopted family, loving trees. Forty-eight percent of Kentucky is forestland; it has the second most diverse hardwood species mix in the nation. Yet, no children in Kentucky grow up knowing a mature forest ecosystem because even the national forest is still logged.
Deneys’ life mission naturally developed to focus on revolutionizing our ways of production and consumption. Her vision is that Pollima will create such a shift that scientists will correlate changes in ice cores and tree rings with the dawn of carbon negative manufacturing.
What’s next for Pollima?
Pollima will begin pre-orders for their furniture on Indiegogo later this year. They are currently finishing the prototyping phase, and plan on moving production to California, close to farms that will provide their raw materials.
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