Green Office Furniture - Advantages To The Environment

By Daniel Harris

With alarming increase in amounts of pollution and diminution of forest resources, people are increasingly becoming eco-friendly with great enthusiasm. The newest trend in the universal go-green movement is the use of green office furniture, and this has great potential to make businesses eco-friendly.

An excellent way to sustain earth's delicate ecology is to go for modular offices. As these offices have lower material needs, they don't result in many trees being cut down . Less material not only implies less trees felled, but also means lesser costs borne by organizations to build these offices. Modular offices are much inexpensive than the usual offices and as the space they occupy is smaller, the rent comes out to be lesser too.

Used or recycled furniture installed in offices also enormously helps in preserving the rapidly depleting natural resources. This type of furniture is appropriate for any kind of office and requires only minimum modifications to look as good as new. Because of the present economic slump, several companies are out of work and are auctioning their furniture at very low prices, which presents a great chance to save office costs. The mineral and forest resources of the planet are preserved by the use of used furniture, without having to make any compromises in terms of quality.

There are ways to make sure that the furniture being made use of is green even if it is brand new. The new furniture must be produced from reusable materials and must be created near the office site so that long-distance freight is not necessary, which otherwise can cause threateningly harmful emissions.

Never purchase furniture with foams whose manufacture has released deadly chemicals like CFCs into the air, which are notorious for depleting the ozone layer. The wood for the furniture should have come from trees, which can be replanted and grown quickly, hence reducing the harm to the jungles. Lastly, you must be economical and purchase only the minimum furniture that would fulfil your needs. - 29958

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