Bambeco

Specialties

Bambeco is the home furnishings and décor company where your eco-​conscious style intersects with your home and lifestyle needs. With thousands of sustainable products, bambeco offers the finest choices for modern green living and makes stylish eco living easy and affordable. At bambeco, we make it easy for you to live your values without sacrificing quality and price. As you browse our web store, you’ll discover a wealth of stylish and modern products, carefully selected to advance a more sustainable and just world. Our innovative products are made from materials that are all-​natural, biodegradable, nontoxic, organic, recycled, recyclable or re-purposed.Launched on Earth Day 2009, bambeco celebrates bamboo, the planet’s most renewable and versatile resource, and ecology, the essential relationship we have with the natural environment. Bambeco has quickly won customers and a loyal devoted fan base of followers. When style, quality and price are equal, most Americans want to buy eco.

History

Established in 2009.

Bambeco was founded in 2009 by Susan Aplin and Carolyn Wapnick; it was inspired by a trip to Alaska where they saw extreme glacial recession and other impacts of climate change up close. That’s when Aplin set off on a personal quest to understand her impact on the planet, which led to several carbon reduction changes in her life.

After making household, energy usage, and commuting changes, Aplin wanted to extend her environmental values to eco-​conscious home décor & furnishing purchases and discovered that fashionable, environmentally responsible home products were not available in the marketplace.

After conducting extensive market research and confirming that she was not alone (more than 59% of Americans wanted to purchase eco-​responsible home products), she quickly set out to solve the market problem with a simple goal: consumers should not have to sacrifice style, price, or quality to go green.

Meet the Business Owner

Susan A.

Business Owner

Susan Aplin is co-​founder and CEO of bambeco. Bambeco is Aplin’s brain child and is the culmination of a successful career at premium retail brands, combined with her lifelong love for the outdoors, passion for the planet and for making the world better for all who inhabit it.

Aplin’s career spans 20 years and has included some of the best known and respected premium retail brands in the industry. Her experience encompasses key executive roles at Williams Sonoma, Inc., The Gap, The Sports Authority, and Staples. Affirming her vision and leadership, bambeco was named to Internet Retailer’s HOT 100 in 2009. In 2012, Smart CEO named Aplin to the list of top CEO’s and recognized her for her success, leadership and philanthropy. bambeco’s early success in the marketplace is no surprise to the industry with Aplin at the helm. Aplin plans to change the planet one room at a time.