Why Certified Furniture?

How can furniture choices save the world?
SFC (Sustainable Furniture Council) is a great certification to ensure the furniture you are buying fulfills certain standards. Thus helping to eliminate unrecycable content and materials from unsustainable sources. Why is this important? It matters where you buy your furniture. By buying furniture made out of reclaimed materials, replanted forests you contribute to a healthier planet. Do the math and you will soon realize that it is even more economical to buy well crafted and designed products, than shop at discount mass-market places like IKEA or Crate&Barrel etc. Products designed by those companies are cheap made and thrown out after a few years. Laminated products (an IKEA staple) include toxic materials that are harmful for you and your children. Toxic gases in those products are being released years after being purchased. It is just not save to surround yourself with the plastic furniture even if it looks cute.
Think twice about the product choices you make and check out www.sustainablefurniturecouncil.org