Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Benefits Of Green Office Furniture

By Tammy Harris

With frightening increase in amounts of pollution and diminution of forest resources, people are increasingly becoming eco-friendly with great zeal. Environmental awareness has found its new voice in a campaign towards green office furniture that a lot of organizations now prefer.

A great way to sustain earth's delicate ecology is to go for modular offices. Such an office requires much lesser material and therefore helps save trees. Less material not only means less trees cut, but also means lesser costs borne by businesses to build these offices. Modular offices are much inexpensive than the normal offices and as the space they occupy is smaller, the rent comes out to be lesser too.

An office that uses recycled or used furniture makes an excellent contribution towards ecological preservation. This type of furniture doesn't require a lot of alterations, and is suitable enough to fulfil the requirements of most offices. The uncertain economic climate has brought a lot of businesses to the brink of bankruptcy and they are selling off their furniture at meagre prices, and this generates a huge opportunity for upcoming firms. Using such furniture protects trees from being felled and mines from being exploited to build new furniture.

Even entirely new furniture can be green furniture if you keep a few things in mind. The new furniture must be made of reusable materials and must be of local make so that the freight does not produce serious emissions from carriers.

Only those foams that are CFC free must have been made use of in the furniture, as the release of these harmful chemicals cause further depletion of the already thinning ozone layer. The wood for the furniture that you purchase must not have come from delicate forest ecosystems. Finally, you must keep in mind that you must not use more furniture than you require, as being lavish is one of the nastiest things that you can do to the environment.

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