ForestEthics : Protect Forests and Stop Global Warming : Purchasing : Ecologically Preferable Alternatives

Purchasing : Ecologically Preferable Alternatives

There are lots of economically competitive alternatives to endangered forest and virgin wood and paper products. Ask for recycled, reclaimed, salvaged, and FSC certified wood products, and post consumer content recycled paper products. Click on the links below to begin your search.

To calculate the amount of energy, emissions, wood fiber, and waste that you will save by switching to paper with high post-consumer recycled content, see the Paper Calculator at http://www.ofee.gov/recycled/calculat.htm

If you would like your product or company to be considered for inclusion in the listings found here, please send an email to implementation@forestethics.org.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The FSC is the independent and environmentally-credible certification system for ecologically, socially, and economically well-managed forests. Databases of FS-certified wood and paper products, copies of the FSC's forestry standards, and other resources are available on the website.

Recyclers's World
Recycler's World was established as a world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or materials, with a section on wood.

E-Wood
A wood trading resource designed to facilitate trade and develop markets for by-products, wastes, residues, cut-offs, shorts, seconds, surplus, and salvaged materials.

Wood World
Wood World was established as a world wide trading site for information to promote trade in the wood industry. The site has a list of companies that carry recycled/reused wood.

US Green Building Council
Developers of the LEED green building rating system, the U.S. Green Building Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responisble, profitable, and healthy.