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
Upcycling / making your own
furnitures reusing wood
This is a very good way to give a second life to old furnitures/pieces of wood, and to developp your creativity
Purchasing secondhand
furnitures
A cheaper option than purchaising new ones, and a good way to be surprised with unexpected discoveries
Checking labels
Some brands focuse on getting wood from sustainable forests, which respect all of its
inhabitants and the balance of the ecosystems.