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You may not think you can do much to save the environment by sitting on your backside, but that's not entirely true. Marks & Spencer's new Fern Collection of sofas and chairs is definitely worth checking out for its sustainably creds.
That is, only if you're looking for a new sofa -- personally, we think they only get truly comfortable after 20 years or so of wearing-in.
But anyway, the furniture is upholstered with organic Fairtrade cotton, framed with sustainable timber and stuffed with a combination of castor oil-based foam and recycled plastic drinks bottles. They've used 122 bottles to make every two-seater sofa.
As well as all this, M&S claims that the factory where the sofas are made is also green, using renewable energy, offsetting its carbon and working towards a target of sending no waste to landfill by 2012.
The Fern Collection includes a two-seater sofa at £899, a slightly smaller two-seater sofa for a slightly smaller £799, a sofa bed for £1,199, and an armchair for £599.
You can buy items from the Fern Collection online and at certain M&S stores including at Camberley, Marble Arch and Bluewater. From 25 February you'll also be able to use an eco delivery service, where packages are wrapped in 100 per cent recycled materials and M&S plants trees to offset the whole process.
The Fern Collection chair from Marks & Spencer
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