Sustainable forest management has made the impact of the hard wood flooring industry almost non-existent to the environment because of the renewable resource of the trees can be re-used indefinitely for a lifetime. As the harvesting and planting efforts work in tandem to insure little to no impact on forests, here are 10 other ways hardwood floors are great for the environment.
- Although it takes 40-60 years for hardwood trees to mature, the trees planted today will not be needed for over 100 years.
- Once a wood floor is no longer needed it can be either burned for fuel or recycled.
- Wood floors need far less water and energy to produce compared to carpeting, linoleum, and other flooring options.
- The wood used for flooring produces oxygen as it grows and once it becomes wood flooring stores carbon.
- The air quality of homes and businesses using Hardwood Floors is improved.
- Wood floors last much longer than other flooring options, and the removal of wood floors is far less than the installation. Wood floors really do last a lifetime.
- The wood used for ships, warehouses, barns and other structures can be recycled as wood floors.
- Wood floors are easy to maintain and require far fewer chemicals to install.
- More and more cleaning supplies, produced specifically for hardwood floors, are becoming “green” products, meaning they don’t harm the environment.
- We are a sustainable, ecologically-friendly industry using a natural resource that is renewable.