Carsington Water

Environmentally friendly benches for Derbyshire beauty spot

We decided to work with TDP as we wanted to support a local, independent business, which is having a real positive environmental impact, helping with our aspirations to be an environmentally responsible company while also providing our visitors with high-quality outdoor furniture.

John Matkin / Visitor Site Manager

A long lasting solution to cater for heavily used visitor furniture

Visitors to Derbyshire beauty spot Carsington Water have been admiring the view from new environmentally friendly picnic tables made a few miles down the road. The site has a very large number of visitors throughout the year and needed furniture that could handle heavy usage without requiring additional maintenance and repair – so from 2024, the much-loved reservoir is now home to benches and picnic tables made entirely from recycled plastic.

LONG-LASTING, HARD WEARING, GREAT LOOKING.

We have been seeing increasing demand from organisations, businesses and individuals around the UK who are turning to recycled plastic for their outdoor furniture, after finding their wooden benches and tables are now rotting and becoming harder to maintain each year.

A HAPPY CUSTOMER

We were delighted when leaders at Severn Trent (which operates Carsington Water) chose to install picnic tables and benches made by TDP for a more environmentally friendly and long-lasting solution. And as an organisation that cares deeply about water, they were delighted to discover that their new furniture has stopped more than 100,000 plastic bottles from entering waterways and oceans.

Since first working with TDP, they have supplied Carsington Water with picnic benches, trail benches, memorial benches and accessible picnic benches, all of which are made in the UK, with plastics sourced here as well. The use of recycled plastics means we spend less time maintaining the benches, using that time elsewhere to improve visitor experience.

Need a maintenance-free, bespoke solution for your organisation’s outdoor space? Our customer service team would love to talk to you.

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FURNITURE THAT PROTECTS AND LOOKS THE PART

One of the benefits of working with TDP, is that the products we build and supply you with solve more than just your challenge.

They also contribute to the ongoing battle against climate and planetary change by being built out of recycled plastic… plastic that may have otherwise ended up clogging up oceans or polluting the landscape.

 

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We’d love to help you as well

We’ve worked on hundreds of projects across the United Kindgom (and beyond), just like Carsington Water. If you’re looking to procure long lasting and sustainable outdoor furniture for your company, then our sales team would love to talk through some options with you.

Whether it’s tables, seats and benches or something from our nature collection, we have a range of recycled plastic furniture that will be perfect, and something you only need to buy once.

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