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Sustainable Wood Chests and Drawers Green Home proudly features Pacific Rim Woodworking chests and drawers, handcrafted from beautiful Pacific Coast Maple wood. Unlike pressed wood, which can be made with toxic materials, our Pacific Rim Maplewood is free of toxic glues, formaldehyde, and particle board. It is considered environmentally safe for your home, bedrooms, and ursery. Most pressed wood products such as particleboard, chipboard, and wafer board contain formaldehyde and synthetic adhesives. Green Home only has items made from sustainable, high-quality, and all-natural hardwood.
Alternatives to Old Growth and Virgin Lumber
by Christi Graham
Wood is unquestionably the most extensively used building material. The average home contains about 13,000 board feet of framing lumber. In ideal circumstances wood is a renewable resource. However, present logging practices combined with growing demand has made wood a diminishing resource.
A few of the problems associated with conventional methods of logging wood are erosion problems, damaging of natural habitats and biodiversity, reduced oxygen generation, poor water quality and air quality both in the immediate area and on a global scale. Most of us have become increasingly aware of these important issues and have been seeking solutions. Fortunately, there are several alternatives to wood that have a softer environmental impact.
We recommend usage of:
- Certified sustainable wood
- Composition woods or engineered wood products
- Salvaged, reclaimed or re-milled lumber
- Wood from trees that might otherwise be in the waste stream (such as old fruit orchard trees), for finishes and trim
- Recycled content sheet goods, (recycled newsprint, agricultural byproducts or wood waste are considered recycled content material
Not all timber is created equal: some is harvested with care and knowledge of valuable ecosystems, while some is the product of clear cuts and deforestation. Until recently there was no dependable way for the customer to tell the difference. Conservationists and conscientious landowners have developed a certification program that vouches for green forestry. Certification is a way to use the market to provide positive incentives for long-term, ecological, forest management. Click here for the complete article on sustainable wood...
Find other items made from sustainably harvested wood:
Sustainable Wood Beds
Hearty Wooden Tables
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