Green Furniture : Are you Aware of What you Bought
Now you are at home while enjoying your relaxing time by playing games, browsing the internet or watching television. It is right to indulge. Have you ever shopped online for your daily needs? Are you shopping for food? Do you shop for toothpaste? Or are you shopping for cooking oil to fry your chicken? Many things are available in online stores, including now many furniture sellers who do business on the internet. How often do you shop for furniture at online stores? We guess that your house must be full of cute and interesting furniture. But, have you ever thought about where the raw materials from the chair you’re sitting in now? Has it ever been imagined how much wood raw materials are needed to make a seat of your favorite? Where is the raw material of wood that the industry uses to make your wood? Many of us will not care or trivialize those questions. But, in reality the government, business people, industries and stakeholders agreed to adopt the concept of green furniture? Hmmm, is this term unfamiliar to you? Well, that concept is a form of our responsibility as human beings in participating in preserving nature. If you take excessive wood in the forest then you get a fine or penalty. Even the ICC (International Criminal Court) plans to include natural destruction, over-resource extraction and destruction of animal and plant habitats as eco-cide.
A Global Commitment. One of the steps that begins with the mutual awareness that the earth is the place where we live has suffered a lot of destruction and natural disasters. Environmentalists have repeatedly warned us that if we do not use natural resources efficiently in the next decade we may find it difficult to find water and food sources. The existence of mining activities, industry, forest destruction and land clearing for plantations make environmental sustainability threatened. Experts report that perhaps many star species will become extinct in the next few years due to insufficient food sources and damage to their habitats. Or what if we imagine big cities like Jakarta, Bangkok and Houston. It’s time we had to care about that. As a party in the world of furniture we are also very careful in running a business. Do not let any of our laws or operational possibilities be harmful to the environment. Let’s turn green, especially green furniture.
Legal Wood. We know the most commonly used material for making furniture is wood. Wood is a major commodity in the turnaround of the world’s businesses worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Thoroughness is the main thing. Choose a furniture brand or furniture store that uses ISO 17300. The objectives of the ISO 17300- series are to provide unambiguous and clear classification principles for timber residues (by-products) and post-consumer (used) wood, to assist the implementation of international programs for utilization of timber residues (by-products) and post-consumer (used) wood and to manage timber waste disposal. The series will serve as a tool to enable efficient communication and trading between seller and buyer. It will also facilitate regulatory procedures and reporting. The ISO 17300- series is made for all stakeholders and is intended to provide a valuable resource that is globally relevant. By understanding this we can get an idea of how our furniture providers give their products to us. The easiest thing we do to know whether furniture stores or furniture brands have complied with ISO 17300 by checking the stickers on each pack or packaging and by visiting their website and observing whether they have obeyed or belom.
Maybe if not, you can ask about it, or furthermore you immediately decide to no longer be sent furniture with the brand. Even if you have the courage, talk that you just want green furniture.
Balancing Nature for Harmony. Green furniture is the right choice when you are an environmental lover, but you want your house to look elegant and cozy. You can probably imagine that now you are in the wilderness and on your own. If you observe that there are 100 trees in an area, you will always remember that the sustainability of nature will be maintained if there are 100 or more trees. Once came an industry that wanted to cut down as many as 50 trees and in the end the remaining trees remained only 50. As a form of half-hearted return, the company only planted 30 tree seedlings that will likely be able to grow into trees in 20 years. Reduced tree populations due to logging and not being replaced with the same tree will have an ecological impact on the ecosystem.
Take Resources as You Need. We need to know is a fairly simple concept we must apply in daily life. Do not we buy a lot of furniture that ends up not useful and just make your home full and uncomfortable. Even in some furniture bundle packages some stores offer special packages on how to make comfort using green furniture. Interesting, isn’t it? The leveling of the room both indoor and outdoor by using 100% green furniture will give the impression that you are now in nature with a free and friendly feeling. If you have enough free time to buy your own furniture, try heading to the furniture section in the mall that offers the concept of green, sustainable and safe for the environment. You can consult a sales representative who is ready to search for information about the raw materials of the furniture and if you are lucky, the sales representative can explain to you how to make a comfortable area with green furniture.
Personal Benefits. You can understand that either the furniture in your room is made of the right wood or illegal wood. Now it is our role to educate our closest friends about green furniture. The industry has also designed green furniture that in addition to using legal wood is also more qualified and has high durability. It is listed in the specifications of the wood materials they use. Well, so use green furniture.