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Green Office Furniture - Benefits To The Environment

By Patricia Campbell


With more pollutants in the atmosphere and fast deforestation, people have woken up to the critical situation and are turning towards preserving nature. The newest trend in the universal go-green movement is the use of green office furniture, and this has excellent potential to make companies eco-friendly.

One way of unburdening the weight on the environment is to go for modular offices. Much less material is needed to set up such offices, and hence they help protect the felling of trees. Modular offices save not only the trees but also the money that a company has to invest for a new office. Modular offices are quite inexpensive, and their rents are lesser as they cover lesser floor space.

Used or recycled furniture placed in offices also greatly helps in preserving the rapidly depleting natural resources. This kind of furniture normally requires only small alterations and fulfils the requirements of most offices perfectly. The disturbing economic climate has brought many companies to the brink of liquidation and they are selling off their furniture at meager prices, and this yields a huge opportunity for new firms. The mineral and forest resources of the planet are conserved by the use of used furniture, without having to make any compromises in terms of quality.

Even entirely new furniture can be green furniture if you keep a few things in mind. The new furniture must be made of reusable materials and must be of local make so that the freight does not result in serious emissions from carriers.

Never purchase furniture with foams whose production has released lethal chemicals like CFCs into the atmosphere, which are notorious for depleting the ozone layer. The wood for the furniture must have come from trees, which can be re-sown and grown quickly, hence curtailing the damage to the jungles. Finally, you must keep in mind that you must not use more furniture than you need, as being lavish is one of the worst things that you can do to the environment.




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