subject: Find Environmentally Friendly Wood For Your Home Renovation [print this page] When we build our homes, we often dont think about what kind of construction materials go into them. But in many cases, there are many different forms of material that go in to the construction of homes, or into home renovations. And for anyone who is concerned with maintaining a good environment, its important to make sure that the materials used in your home are suitably environmentally friendly. Since its likely for us to end up using wood somewhere in our homes, this means that we need to stay on top of making sure that the wood we use in our homes is environmentally suitable. Here are a few good ways to go about doing this.
First, one of the main considerations is to look at where the wood comes from. In some cases, your wood can actually come from recycled sources. This is most practical in the case of particle boards, or other boards created from other sources that were initially smaller broken down pieces of wood. For people doing a home renovation, this means that perhaps one good place to look especially when doing flooring work is to use a laminate consisting of recycled particle board and recycled plastic. One other use for recycled wood is to use it as wood chips in gardening or landscaping applications. However, many uses of wood require for the wood to be original. Thus youre going to have to do a bit of background checking of how the wood you intend to buy is produced. Make sure that the wood being harvested is not in any way endangered, and moreover that the wood production process doesnt endanger wildlife near where the wood is grown. You will also want to make sure that the company producing the wood replants it in such a way as not to harm the environment.
Next, youre going to want to make sure that the production of the wood is also done in an environmentally friendly way. Before you buy wood for your home improvement project, do a bit of background checking on the factories or lumber mills used by the company producing your wood. These mills can in some cases produce a large amount of runoff, either excess unusable wood or chemicals, which needs to be disposed of properly. Additionally, these factories use a lot of energy, and by supporting mills that are more energy efficient or use alternative energy to run will be a big benefit. Finally, the last step of the production process is transporting the lumber to its final destination, which in many cases can involve polluting vehicles. While avoiding some pollution in the transport of lumber is inevitable, it can be a help to look for woods that are transported using methods that arent as polluting, or at least arent egregious polluters. Even choosing wood transported by train versus truck will be an improvement.
