Saturday, January 9, 2010

The Benefits Of Green Office Furniture

By Oliver Harris

With more pollution in the environment and rapid deforestation, people have awakened to the critical situation and are turning towards preserving nature. Environmental knowledge has found its new advocate in a drive towards green office furniture that a lot of businesses now prefer.

A great way to preserve earth's fragile ecology is to go for modular offices. Much less material is needed to set up such offices, and thus they help protect the felling of trees. Modular offices save not only the trees but also the money that a business has to put in for a new office. It's cheaper to make modular offices, and being small in area, they also result in a lower rent for the company.

An office that uses reusable or second hand furniture makes a great contribution towards ecological conservation. This kind of furniture doesn't need many modifications, and is suitable enough to fulfil the requirements of most offices. The economic downslide has resulted in several businesses going out of work, and they are now selling off their furniture at surprisingly low prices, and this opportunity can be lapped up by companies looking to build a new office. The mineral and forest resources of the earth are preserved by the use of second hand furniture, without having to make any sacrifices in terms of quality.

There are ways to ensure that the furniture being made use of is green even if it is brand new. The new furniture must be manufactured from reusable materials and should be manufactured near the office site so that long-distance transportation is not required, which otherwise can cause potentially harmful emissions.

Make sure that lethal chemicals such as CFCs and HCFCs, which cause tremendous damage to the ozone layer, have not been made use of in the production of foams. The wood for the furniture should have come from trees, which can be re-sown and grown quickly, thus minimizing the damage to the forests. Finally, purchasing more furniture than you require must be avoided and you must be frugal in your use of resources.

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