Sustainable Environmental Practices

Sustainable environmental measures form an integral part of Rattan Island's strategy. Our products are 100% handmade with minimum impact on the environment through using no machinery and therefore zero carbon output during the production process.

Our rattan cane is harvested from the jungles of Myanmar whilst taking great care in our sustainable harvesting policies.  Rattan Grows from stems to a length of up to 20 foot with each root growing between 5-10 stems branching out.   When harvesting the rattan we carefully select the mature stems only cutting the rattan above the stem/roots to encourage  re-growth of the cane.  The following season we will harvest the now more mature stems whilst allowing the previous seasons roots to continue the process of growing.   Through careful harvesting it not only secures the livelihood of the farmers who are harvesting the rattan it also allows our products.

We continually evaluate and look at ways to further improve our footprint on the environment. Listed below are our current activities to help ensure that our products remain one of the greenest environmentally friendly products on the planet today.

To help achieve our target environmental goals  our company is actively pursuing the following strategies,

1) Minimise waste and  promote internal recycling.
2) Promote environmental awareness and responsibility amongst employees and suppliers, and will seek, where practicable, to continuously improve Company environmental performance
3) Sustainable harvesting of rattan cane
4)Encouraging NO CARDBOARD box packing to reduce packing materials by 30% to lower any impact on the environment.