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Choosing Environmentally Friendly Furniture
Looking around my office, over half of the furniture I have contains particle board - my desk, a chest of drawers and some cupboards. Some of it has wooden veneer, the type of wood used I have no idea. I really wasn't thinking too much about the environment when making these purchases; more about my wallet and quick fix solutions to my furnishing needs.Furniture may have dropped in price in recent years, mostly thanks to cheap imports, but the environment has paid dearly for it. Modern furniture may also contain highly toxic substances; poisonous to us and the planet.Particle board usually contains formaldehyde in the resin used to bind the wood chips - it's a known carcinogen and environmental toxin. As for the wood used for the chips and the veneer - that's anyone's guess. It may be from plantation timber, but it could possibly come from old growth forests. The point is in my case I simply don't know.
Modern furniture cushioning and coverings tend to be made from all sorts of nasty materials such as PVC (more formaldehyde) and polyurethane which contains chemicals such as acetone, methylene chloride and fluorocarbons.
Solid wood furniture is also of great concern. While most Western countries now have tight controls on the type and origin of raw wood materials that can be imported in order to protect natural habitats overseas; much of the cheaper furniture around these days comes from countries such as Vietnam - and that can be a problem.
Well-known, conventional furniture made of wood. In several thousand years of developing history of furniture, wood furniture already holds special cultural value. However, the modern industry revolution had changed the condition, people want to debase cost, shorten technical cycle, use complex board largely, the board has many deleterious additive components with body. Purportedly, wooden furniture has element to disease, such as benzene, ammonia, formaldehyde, and so on, they need long time to volatilize, maybe several months, several years, or over ten years. If you buy a unit of wooden furniture in house, it would like set a small exhaust emission stage. So, it¡¯s a fearful problem that hold injurant for modern house article. Rattan product has some big advantages which green, nature, health, handwork. That is why it popular for people.
Advocate nature not only healthy need, but also a pursuance of aesthetic culture. Science is a two-edged glaive. New technology brings new problem, after the enthusiasm of industrial revolution, people enter reflection again about consumptive need. New material and new technics only give people brief and superficial vogue, it is for long just original and unvarnished modality.
People love the rattan furniture craftwork as if like eat native-born chook. The value isn¡¯t be substituted with new material and new technics.
The conception is mutative that people¡¯s consumptive. In research, the consciousness is leaded by fashionable thought: classical or modern, western or national, vitreous and steel, red wooden. In a not open report of authoritative institution, at the pop trend, it is several times than other products that ascending speed of rattan product. It will be the consumptive thought of future house product.
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