It would be lovely to be able to call furniture ‘organic’ wouldn’t it. Unfortunately there is no such thing at the moment. One of the main principles of FSC certification is the securing of a sustainable forestry. FSC and the European PEFC are certification systems that, from forestry to furniture industry, wood from sustainable forestry is used. The weak point in the system is the certification of forest holdings. Only a small, one percent of forest and timber companies can actually verify an FSC certificate.Companies like Team7 set themselves a target to only use wood from sustainable forestry, which means that forestry is clearly regulated and controlled by the legislation of the particular country. For this reason Team7 does not use tropical timber.Team7 goes even further by gaining the Austrian Eco-label award. This covers a whole range of further criteria including ensuring glues are not toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic. This is currently about as close to ‘organic furniture‘ as there is.
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