A message from NWPCA:
We have lived among and nurtured a natural resource available to us from the very beginning. Our very understanding of the world as we know it has been touched by forests, wood and wood products. Our homes, flooring, furniture and fuel, provide us the warmth of our surroundings.
Today, wood’s responsibilities in the supply chain is to serve as a fundamental and sustainable part of moving goods from one point to another safely, quickly, and efficiently. It does so every day, millions of times a day. Wood pallets and wood packaging truly do move the world, and it’s done sustainably.
From Cradle-to-Grave, Wood Pallets Are Environmentally Favorable
There is no other commonly-used building material that requires so little energy to produce as wood. Thanks to photosynthesis, trees are able to use an abundant natural resource (i.e. the sun) as it captures CO 2 in the air, combine it with water these plants get from the soil to produce an amazing organic material, wood.
Wood pallets and packaging are naturally almost completely made out of wood. And wood’s strong environmental credentials have been captured in various Life-Cycle Assessment studies and Environmental Product Declarations.
The American Hardwood Export Council’s Life Cycle Assessment of Rough-sawn Kiln-dried Hardwood Lumber and the Canadian and American Wood Council’s Environmental Product Declaration further the clear, fact-based, scientifically proven, and independently third-party verified environmental attributes of choosing wood.
According to the CEI-BOIS, here is a great example of the real-life benefits of using wood over alternative materials: “Every cubic meter of wood used as a substitute for other building materials reduces CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere by an average of 1.1 ton CO 2 . If this is added to the 0.9 tons of CO 2 stored in wood, each cubic meter of wood saves a total of 2 tons CO 2 . Based on these figures, a 10% increase in the percentage of wooden houses in Europe would produce sufficient CO 2 savings to account for about 25% of the reductions prescribed by the Kyoto Protocol.”
Nature’s Packaging – Choose the Sustainable Way
