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Interior design now incorporates sustainability efforts to provide you with a beautiful, functional, and safe environment. This ranges from using environmentally friendly materials to repurposing items around the home and reducing waste.
Interior designers now also consider acoustical quality and comfort when building sustainable environments. There are many ways in which interior designers do so. They could design walls that minimize unwanted sound transmission, plan out spaces to keep their noise levels contained, and use sound absorptive finish materials.
Absorbing panels or acoustic panels, in general, are the first materials to come to mind. Not only are they environmentally friendly, but they are also excellent for absorbing unwanted sounds in any living space.
What Are Acoustic Absorbing Panels?
Acoustic absorbing panels are panels made of polyester materials or a combination of foam, wood, or fabric. The acoustic panels come in all types of shapes, sizes, and even colors. These absorbing panels are designed to reduce any residual sound traveling across the room.
They can be installed nearly anywhere, in offices, homes, restaurants, and bars. You may notice how all these spaces feature residual sound, which can be both annoying and distracting. This is where absorbing panels step in.
When sound waves travel and meet these surfaces, they are converted into kinetic energy or heat. This now converted heat energy dissipates freely and replaces the sound waves, leaving your area potentially noise-free. Following this principle, acoustic panels will successfully localize any residual sound, mitigate background noise and reduce echoes in any given space.
Eco-Friendly Features of Acoustic Absorbing Panels
Acoustic absorbing panels are becoming more and more popular in interior design. Homeowners who want to make their living spaces free of excessive reverbing sounds and far more aesthetically pleasing use absorbing panels.
Polyester acoustic panels (PET) are quite inexpensive, are easy to install, and can be customized to match your room decor. But that’s not all; they are also environmentally friendly. Here are some of the many ecological features of PET acoustic panels.
A polyester acoustic panel is made from recycled polyester fiber (PET or Polyethylene Terephthalate). It contains no extra toxic substances, glue, or formaldehyde and has very low VOCs, making it an eco-friendly product.
PET acoustic panels are usually formed as a by-product of the petroleum refining industry and therefore cause no additional pollution during production. They are further lightweight, dense, durable, and rigid, making them perfect for use as acoustic panels. PET is also available in an array of colors, meaning you can customize the acoustic absorbing panels to fit any living space.
PET acoustic panels are incredibly safe and easy to use. They are composed of a mixture of recycled PET and virgin PET and can be reused and recycled. Unlike glass wool, whose insulation is hazardous to touch and breathe, or mineral rock wool which emits small carcinogenic fibers in the air, PET panels do not discharge any harmful substances.
As mentioned earlier, PET acoustic panels can be reused and recycled instead of discarded. In actuality, it is the PET material that is recyclable. PET, unlike other plastics, is nearly 100% recyclable and can be remade again to be used in various products.
They can be used to make PET plastic containers, carpeting, and even water-resistant clothing! This way, PET plastic can be reused instead of ending up as waste in landfills.
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