Fiberboard as a building material is much maligned, but you can say this about it: No tree was ever cut down for the express purpose of making fiberboard. The same holds true of engineered stone countertops. The 90 percent of stone-like materials that form the base of quartz countertops are all waste byproducts of other quarrying or manufacturing processes. No natural stone is quarried solely for use in quartz countertops.
Even the resins that compose the remaining 10 percent of a quartz countertop have become more natural and less synthetic. Breton’s trademarked term for this ingredient is “Biolenic Resins,” referring to a combination of artificial and organic resins, the latter derived from non-food vegetable oils.