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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
February 1, 2007
FSC Revises Controlled-Wood Standards
Ever since it decided to allow certification of wood products that include both certified and uncertified wood—partial-content certification—the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has had to deal with concerns about the source of the uncertified content. Early on, FSC included language banning material from “controversial sources” but offered no practical way to enforce that requirement. To address this problem, FSC introduced in 2004 the concept of “controlled wood” (see EBN Vol. 14, No. 2), which went a long way towards clarifying what is required but created new documentation challenges for suppliers. Two standards that took effect on January 1, 2007, should make the new controls more manageable....
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