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WOOD
MATERIALS ORIGIN & MANUFACTURING LOCATION
Design
Ikea
First Wood Producers
Russia, Europe, South-East Asia, North and South
America
First Consumers
China, Japan, India, Middle East
Manufacture
Most of the time, wooden furniture sold in Europe are made in the EU. Cases of bad treatment of employees were reported in some countries.
EXTERNALITIES
Wood Industry
-Ecosystemic losses with deforestation, especially with illegal wood traffic
-Water pollution
-Human cost : population sometimes dispossessed of their lands
Using habits
-Increasing of the demand in general (architecture,production of energy...)
-Lower price of the illegaly produced wood
Bibliography
ALTERNATIVES
Bibliography
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