Sustainability

Our environmental sustainability practices are centered around the fact that we primarily use eco-friendly raw materials for manufacturing – natural plant fibers that are easily made abundant from the wild, such as water hyacinth, seagrass, rattan, etc.

For strategic and ecological reasons, Oricraft focuses a bit predominantly on water hyacinth, which is obviously unwanted and known to jeopardize the habitats where they grow, usually killing surrounding aquatic creatures. We maintain, however, certain fair shares of products utilizing seagrass and rattan, whose ecological benefits are more evident.

Regardless of the raw material consumed, we place a pronounced emphasis on sustainable harvesting practices with our farmers. In recent years, we have started to increase our sourcing of commercially cultivated rattan and even water hyacinth, due to supply shortages (especially during peak seasons).

We virtually use no hardwood in making our products; any wood (though a small portion of all raw materials used) would mostly be acacia, a legitimate [soft] wood that is commercially planted in vast areas for fairly quick harvesting (within 5 years). Moreover, all of the acacia wood we use for production is FSC-certified.