What is Fast Furniture?

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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211: When did we start thinking of furniture as disposable? Today we're discussing the under-exaggerated problem of fast furniture: cheap, low quality, and mass-produced pieces designed to be dumped. We're breaking down (ha) two iconic fast furniture items, and exploring tips for your next point-of-purchase furniture decision. Thanks to our sponsor today! Use code ECOCHIC at CarawayHome.com for 10% off. More for you: Ep 196: Creating Thoughtful Spaces | Amanda Gunawan, OWIU Designs ‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash. (NY Times) Fast furniture: what’s wrong with it and 7 ways to make better choices (for you and the planet) (Heidi Bischoff, 2019) Ikea keeps price of popular Billy Bookcase the cheapest in Euro zone (Independent UK) Meet me online - @ecochicpodcast on Instagram + @lauraediez on Tiktok. Email me at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.6	Welcome back to Eco-Sheek. My name is Laura Diaz. So nice to have you here. I'm excited
1:03.7	about today's episode because I feel like it's a topic that we don't hear about a lot, and I'm
1:08.0	really excited to talk about it. It feels a little gossipy. We are talking
1:11.8	today about fast furniture. A little bit of background on this episode. In October, our friend
1:18.9	of the podcast, Ashley Piper, she is the author of Give a Shit, a two-time podcast guest and just a
1:24.5	wonderful, wonderful human, incredible eco-educator.
1:28.5	Ashley, in October again, spoke to the New York Times on fast furniture for an article
1:33.5	that I'll go ahead and link in the show notes.
1:35.8	And after I read that article, after I read her quote, I kind of became obsessed with the
1:39.9	concept of fast furniture because it's so in our face. It is so, so prevalent in our worlds,
1:47.4	in our consumer society. And yet I feel like no one is talking about what a huge problem fast
1:53.2	furniture is and what it means for sustainability and all the work that we're trying to do
1:58.6	when it comes to consumer choice and buying better
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