Founded on Earth Day in 2005 with a vision to work with corporations to divert their surplus furniture into the hands of communities, instead of piling up in landfills, ANEW is celebrating 20 years of environmental stewardship.
Founder Rose Tourje had a bleak realization during her successful career in commercial interior design when one day she witnessed furniture actually being hurled out the windows of an office building, crashing to the pavement below, where fork lifts were filling dumpsters headed straight to the landfill.
She thought, if this is happening with a large public company in Los Angeles, this must be happening everywhere. Rose found this unacceptable and irresponsible, and after 30 years of a design career, she decided to leave and set a new industry standard. That鈥檚 how ANEW was born.