The European Union produced a video stockshots on the new ways of using energy. This stockshot illustrates : Recycled Cardboard Furniture, La Monnerie-le-Montel, France. Source: European Commission

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Infoclip: (8) New ways of using energy - Recycled Cardboard Furniture, La Monnerie-le-Montel, France

Title: Infoclip: (8) New ways of using energy - Recycled Cardboard Furniture, La Monnerie-le-Montel, France 

Views inside the factory, stacks of cardboard (6 shots)

Automated cardboard manipulation (8 shots)

Cardboard shredding, removal and re-use (7 shots)

Compressed recycled cardboard pieces bound in several lots (2 shots)

Manual cardboard folding, assembling of furniture piece (7 shots)

Finished furniture pieces (5 shots)

SOUNDBITE by Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Biard, Managing Director of Durolle Emballage, (in FRENCH) saying that the deciding factor is when a buyer thinks, well, why buy a piece of metal furniture as opposed to a piece of cardboard furniture that's kind of nice, re-useable and recyclable; they focus on the whole ecological recycle-recyclable idea; they buy the cardboard 40 km away; the cardboard is mashed together, then goes back 30 km away, and with that cardboard they make paper and that paper goes back to their supplier; so they work on a closed circuit of 50 km so their products really are 100% local; the paper, the cardboard and the furniture, all is manufactured there and there is no waste, as the wasted cardboard pieces go back into the recycled cardboard pile to make cardboard all over again; so there is no waste. (3 shots)