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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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the ones forever advertising on TV - solid oak furniture. I would never dream of buying solid oak furniture. The oak is a beautiful, very slow growing tree (hardwood) and it's almost impossible to sustain if it's harvested too much.
Just interested in what others think. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think we should all just spin a wheel that randomly determined how we each individually contribute to the destruction of the environment. If its not one thing, it's another.
*puts coffee cup on plastic coffee table* |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oak furniture lasts for hundreds of years can be sustainably managed and is grow globally...
So do you want to rethink.your sustainability arguement....
Or buy processed mdf the production of which is probably far more environmentally damaging? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think we should all just spin a wheel that randomly determined how we each individually contribute to the destruction of the environment. If its not one thing, it's another.
*puts coffee cup on plastic coffee table*"
*Nods* |
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"the ones forever advertising on TV - solid oak furniture. I would never dream of buying solid oak furniture. The oak is a beautiful, very slow growing tree (hardwood) and it's almost impossible to sustain if it's harvested too much.
Just interested in what others think."
Are they harvesting it too much? I don't know where they source it and how they manage the resource. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Just looked at their website for their sustainability policy. By 2022 they aim to be ‘Gold standard’ which is fully sustainable. But recognise that is s challenge and may be ‘silver standard’ which is ‘responsibly sourced’.
They’re currently ‘bronze standard’ which is ‘traceable, legal and non controversial’ (whatever that means!)
So you have a valid point. But this company is far from being the only company with sustainablity issues, most of the global big players will be similar! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the ones forever advertising on TV - solid oak furniture. I would never dream of buying solid oak furniture. The oak is a beautiful, very slow growing tree (hardwood) and it's almost impossible to sustain if it's harvested too much.
Just interested in what others think.
Are they harvesting it too much? I don't know where they source it and how they manage the resource."
Oakland Furnture Forest I believe... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Most of my home is furnished from them, lovely well made stuff which should last a lifetime unlike the numerous flat pack pine rubbish bought over the years. |
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I can understand that oak furniture would last potentially much longer than softwood stuff but the oak trees could also exist alive for much longer too. Cutting it is not on the scale of cutting rainforest hardwoods but it seems sensible to use softwoods if we can, from sustainable forests.
Their ads are particularly annoying too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oak furniture lasts for hundreds of years can be sustainably managed and is grow globally...
So do you want to rethink.your sustainability arguement....
Or buy processed mdf the production of which is probably far more environmentally damaging?"
It is mdf dust is a proven carsnegenic |
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Never mind the sustainability of the oak that they use for the furniture..... Have you seen the hoops the customer has to jump through in looking after the furniture to maintain the guarantee that oak furniture land offers  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I can understand that oak furniture would last potentially much longer than softwood stuff but the oak trees could also exist alive for much longer too. Cutting it is not on the scale of cutting rainforest hardwoods but it seems sensible to use softwoods if we can, from sustainable forests.
Their ads are particularly annoying too."
Different woods have different uses. All forests are sustainable if they are managed. And managing woodland is something that has been done for thousands of years.
And yeah their ads are irritating |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oak furniture lasts for hundreds of years can be sustainably managed and is grow globally...
So do you want to rethink.your sustainability arguement....
Or buy processed mdf the production of which is probably far more environmentally damaging?
It is mdf dust is a proven carsnegenic"
It's not much different in its effects than asbestos dust but the controls over its manufacture are far more strict. Once all that dust is glued together it's not wood it's just a glued composite |
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By *ucy. AlCouple
over a year ago
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Growing an oak tree to be of a good quality to use I believe takes years, for the softer woods like mdf we can get away with a cycle of cutting and growing to ensure sustainability. Oak it is much harder to achieve. I am all for wood as it is a natural resource that when managed effectively it is an infinite resource also, alongside the fact it decomposes and leaves no trace damaging the environment it is perfect but hardwoods such as oak I'm not too keen on. UNLESS it's naturally felled such as from a storm or the forestry commission authorise it for deforestation to prevent spread of disease or encourage growth of shrub etc my opinion anyway |
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By *tep121Man
over a year ago
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"Most of my home is furnished from them, lovely well made stuff which should last a lifetime unlike the numerous flat pack pine rubbish bought over the years."
Same here. Beautiful furniture n very well made.. |
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Oak is a beautiful hard wood and when intro-grated into architecture furniture shipbuilding or whatever can last multiple lifetimes insodoing will supersede the over growth of land with pine or other soft wood it also costs more so potentially less likely to end up in a skip |
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will stick to Ikea!
