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Sustainability Issues of producing &using products made from wood?


A problem that exists today is the sheer profits
earned in the timber industry by the various
loggers, manufacturers and vendors. Further to
this, an unfortunate oversight is that most of the
logging and manufacturing is performed in
countries where trees are abundant, but strict
enforcement and regulations against their harvest is
not. Without control, the rate of deforestation not
only surpasses our ability to rebuild these forests,
but threatens the delicate balance of our world’s
ecosystems and our very lives.

taken from http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lgb_NCnxFSgJ:www.asiaplywoodcompany.com/Environmental%2520Sustainability%2520Concerns%2520in%2520Wood.pdf+Sustainability+Issues+of+producing+%26+using+products+made+from+wood&hl=id&gl=id&sig=AHIEtbSjVu8t2EKmOwty79T85hoU3JpC4g
for non-wood http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5325E/x5325e03.htm

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One Response to “Sustainability Issues of producing &using products made from wood?”

  1. A problem that exists today is the sheer profits
    earned in the timber industry by the various
    loggers, manufacturers and vendors. Further to
    this, an unfortunate oversight is that most of the
    logging and manufacturing is performed in
    countries where trees are abundant, but strict
    enforcement and regulations against their harvest is
    not. Without control, the rate of deforestation not
    only surpasses our ability to rebuild these forests,
    but threatens the delicate balance of our world’s
    ecosystems and our very lives.

    taken from http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lgb_NCnxFSgJ:www.asiaplywoodcompany.com/Environmental%2520Sustainability%2520Concerns%2520in%2520Wood.pdf+Sustainability+Issues+of+producing+%26+using+products+made+from+wood&hl=id&gl=id&sig=AHIEtbSjVu8t2EKmOwty79T85hoU3JpC4g
    for non-wood http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5325E/x5325e03.htm
    References :

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