{"id":209,"date":"2015-09-07T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T01:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-08-31T06:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:18:33","slug":"its-easy-being-green-with-terrazzo-the-original-recyclable-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/its-easy-being-green-with-terrazzo-the-original-recyclable-floors\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Easy Being Green with Terrazzo \u2013 The Original Recyclable Floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s Easy Being Green with Terrazzo \u2013 The Original Recyclable Floors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, the focus on green living and sustainability has significantly increased.\u00a0 Many home and business owners look to their architects, builders and designers to present more sustainable solutions both for residential and commercial spaces.\u00a0 Terrazzo, being the original recyclable material used for floors has emerged as one of the more sustainable building materials for floors and other installations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient Recycling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terrazzo has been around thousands of years ago, before the terms \u201crecycle\u201d and \u201cgoing green\u201d were around.\u00a0 It was first discovered by Venetian marble workers when they saw that discarded marble chips and slabs set in clay can be re-used to pave the area surrounding their homes or their terraces.\u00a0 Since then, terrazzo has been the more practical and sustainable option for both indoor and outdoor flooring areas.\u00a0 Ancient cementitious terrazzo floors that are still intact to this day are probably the best kind of testament to terrazzo\u2019s durability and exceptional sustainability throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern, Sustainable Terrazzo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much has terrazzo improved?\u00a0 With the arrival of better building materials such as polymers and epoxies, modern terrazzo has become more environmentally ideal, sustainable and long lasting compared to ancient terrazzo.\u00a0 How environmentally ideal?\u00a0 These days, more and more hospitals, schools, hotels and other structures are utilising terrazzo for floors, wall installations and others because of its environmentally sound qualities.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, terrazzo is non-porous and does not have grout joints.\u00a0 What this means is that the possibility of microbial growth from stagnant water that are usually trapped within the grouts is non-existent.\u00a0 Additionally, modern terrazzo \u2013because of its non-porous quality, absorbs water even less than cementitious terrazzo making cleaning easier and without having to use harsh chemical-based cleaners.\u00a0 Because of terrazzo\u2019s advantages in overall cleanness and sanitation, more and more builders recommend it for areas where the quality of indoor ventilation plays a big consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Easy Being Green with Terrazzo \u2013 The Original Recyclable Floors In the last few years, the focus on green living and sustainability has significantly increased.\u00a0 Many home and business owners look to their architects, builders and designers to present more sustainable solutions both for residential and commercial spaces.\u00a0 Terrazzo, being the original recyclable material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s Easy Being Green with Terrazzo \u2013 Recyclable Floors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Terrazzo has been around thousands of years ago, before the terms \u201crecycle\u201d and \u201cgoing green\u201d were around. 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