B&Q has announced that is has achieved its goal of only buying timber products from proven responsible sources, and it’s starting a Forest Friendly campaign to highlight the importance for people to check the sustainability credentials of timber before they buy, to help preserve endangered species and habitats and to ensure local communities are prosperous and protected
Last year just over 90 per cent of B&Q’s timber products were traceable to responsible sources and from February, the UK’s largest home improvement retailer can ensure that 100 per cent of timber in their products, can be traced back to well managed sources.
Apparently B&Q was one of the founders of the FSC in the early ’90s, and it works with organisations like The Forest Trust to help producers achieve FSC certification. When surveyed 92 per cent of customers said that they would choose responsibly sourced wood every time if they knew there was no extra.
Over 16,000 products at B&Q contain wood and the retailer’s policy applies to all timber-derived products: sawn timber, wallpaper, flooring, doors, furniture, hand tools, books, decking, fencing, firewood, sheds, paint brushes, windows, garden furniture, plywood to those where the wood is hidden like mirror backs, garden tools and even baths.
It is vital for biodiversity that forests are made commercially viable, says B&Q, and for local communities as this means that those communities will protect their forests for future generations. If forests are not commercially viable, local people will be tempted to clear them to make way for other businesses that do deliver a profit like cattle ranching or palm oil production.
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