Eco-Friendly Storage Solutions

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Joyce Benson   Add a Comment |
Tag(s): For Kids, Green Furnishings, Greening the Home, Greening the Office

Looking to organize and de-clutter your home or workplace and want to do so with environmentally-sensitive materials?  Well, if you’re handy, or can hire a carpenter, one option is to build your own storage solutions from wheatboard, sunflower board, kirei board, formaldehyde-free MDF, reclaimed wood, or FSC-certified wood.

For a variety of pre-built storage options, check out these sources:

• Green Forest Furniture — an online retailer of school, office, and residential laminated furniture that is made in the USA.  All pieces are urea formaldehyde-free, made from recycled wood using dowel construction techniques, and packaged in recycled cardboard.
• Tedspace makes modular, stackable storage pieces to form a bookcase, media storage, closet organizer (like the one pictured here), room divider, and more, made from sustainable woods and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood veneers finished with low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) stains.  All made in the USA.
• The Green Home Environmental Store offers under-the-bed storage drawers made with sustainably harvested wood from Oregon and Washington, hand-rubbed with a finish of tung oil and pure beeswax.  It’s free of toxic glues, formaldehyde, particle board, and can be configured to fit under twin, full, queen, or king size beds.
• Even Target offers some eco-friendly storage options such as its Linear Bookcase & Storage Unit Collection which is made in the USA, from formaldehyde-free birch plywood with 100% nontoxic, water-based stains.
• BuyOnlineNow is a retailer of all sorts of office storage supplies made with a large percentage of post-consumer recycled materials.
• The Container Store now has numerous eco-friendly storage and organization solutions.

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