FSC & PEFC™ CHAIN OF CUSTODY & LOGOS
Some information here that some of you may find interesting, others certainly will not….
WHAT IS FOREST CERTIFICATION?
Forest Certification is a voluntary third-party process that forest owners, the forest industry and the entire production chain for wood products can use to show consumers that products are made from wood that comes from well-managed forests. A well-managed forest is one which is ecologically, socially and economically sustainable.
WHAT IS CHAIN OF CUSTODY?
Businesses need a reliable and credible mechanism to prove to their customers that their products have come from a responsibly produced source. Chain of custody is a method by which companies can show this
Through chain-of-custody certification, fibre from certified forestland can move through production streams, thus enabling the end product to receive a certified logo informing customers that the product came from a certified forest and was manufactured responsibly.
WHY ARE THERE DIFFERENT CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS?
FSC was established in 1994 in Mexico by conservation organisations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF.
PEFC was established in 1999 in Luxembourg by an alliance of small and family forest owners from France, Austria, Germany and Finland.
440 million hectares of forests have been certified under these systems. This equates to around 10.7% of the world’s forests.
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