National Forest Products Week

5R’s | Forest Circular Economy

The five R's of the Forest Circular Economy: Regrow, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, and Replant.

Building w/ Forests

Building w/ Forests Forests make everything better. products hiking and camping breathing When we build with forests, we make our climate better. Every cubic meter of wood used as a substitute for other materials reduces CO2 emissions by more than a ton.

Carbon Storage in Landscapes

Natural climate solutions increases carbon storage in landscapes

Circular Economy

What is the Circular Economy? Our current economic system is based on the consumption of finite resources that creates waste. A circular economy actively seeks way to design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural environments. This approach works at a global as well as a local level. The circular economy redefines growth balancing economic benefits with social and economic benefits.

Circular Economy & Forest Products

The circular economy happens in two cycles: the biological and the technical. Bio-based materials like wood, pulp, food, and cotton are consumed and then fed back into the system through process like composting. Technical cycles are where products and materials are restored and recovered through reuse, repair, or (in the last resort) recycling. Forest products work in both cycles to help us design waste our of our economic system and regenerate and restore natural environments.

Circular Economy | definition

Clean Water, Clean Planet

Clean Water = Clean Planet. With more than half of the drinking water in the U.S. originating in a forest, healthy forests are essential to clean water. And clean water is essential to a healthy planet.

Climate Problem –> Solution

Forest products offer renewable and sustainable alternatives to plastics, steel, concrete, and fossil fuels. Together, forests and forest products provide innovative and powerful solutions for climate change. #forestproud

Consumers & Climate Solutions (Canada)

DYK? The chain reaction to planting trees starts with purchasing decisions. Buying renewable and sustainable forest products incentivizes landowners to keep their lands forested. Without demand for forest products, forests are at risk of permanent clearing for other uses (aka: Deforestation). Strong markets are essential for keeping forests as forests. Conscious consumers like you are the key to natural climate solutions.

Consumers & Climate Solutions (U.S.)

DYK? The chain reaction to planting trees starts with purchasing decisions. Buying renewable and sustainable forest products incentivizes landowners to keep their lands forested. Without demand for forest products, forests are at risk of permanent clearing for other uses (aka: Deforestation). Strong markets are essential for keeping forests as forests. Conscious consumers like you are the key to natural climate solutions.

Deforestation

Deforestation is the permanent conversion of forest to another use (e.g. agriculture, development, etc.). Globally, it is a major contributor to climate change as there are less trees and fewer forests to absorb and sequester carbon. Fortunately, deforestation is not a problem in North America. Thanks to sustainable forestry and forest management choices focused on long-term forest health, we grow, harvest, and regrow forests on a never-ending cycle.

EP-What? Environmental Product Declarations

EP-What? Environmental Product Declarations Sometimes making choices is hard. EPDs make comparing products and materials easy Like a report card for the Earth, they track the impact a product or material has on the planet from cradle to grave. So you can be sure that your climate solution Is actually a climate solution.

Forest certification helps you make better choices

Forests Make Our Lives Better

Forests make our lives better. They filter the air we breathe. They clean our water. And forests and forest products lock up carbon.

Grow. Harvest. Replant.

This is how we make sure forests and forest products are climate solutions. #forestproud

How Forests Make Our Lives Better.

How do forests make our lives better? They filter the air we breathe. They clean our water. And forests and forest products lock up carbon.

Lifecycle Assessments

What is a Lifecycle Assessment? LCA's look at emissions from all phases of a products lifespan: extraction, transportation, manufacturing, and disposal. This provides a total carbon footprint for products and materials. Materials like wood and fiber are renewable, recyclable, and store carbon. When we choose natural, renewable, plant-based materials we turn carbon and climate problems, into climate solutions!

Lock it Up!

Trees and wood products lock away carbon.

Mass Timber Animation

Quick illustration visualizing how cross-laminated timber is created.

Natural Climate Solutions Fight Climate Change

Natural Climate Solutions Fight Climate Change.

Pallets are Positive

In 2020, the first EPD was completed for wood pallets It showed that over their lifecycle, wood pallets can have a net positive carbon impact Meaning that from cradle to grave They store more carbon and help reduce other emissions Making wood pallets a positive choice for the planet palletcentral.com

Renewable Products (Re_)

If it can't be... REgrown, REused, REclaimed, REsold, REcycled, or composted...Don't buy it.

RePallet

RePallet DYK? More than 2 billion wood pallets are used in the U.S. every day If you were to stack them end to end they would reach the moon SIX TIMES. Not impressed? 95% of them are recovered, repaired, or recycled. That’s sustainability in action. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. RePallet. https://www.palletcentral.com/

Sustainable Forestry | A Cycle on Repeat

The Circular Economy Works At All Scales

The Real Deal on Carbon Credits

What does the Circular Economy Do?