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When It Comes

To Eco-friendly

Decking...

• Redwood delivers one-of-a-kind natural

beauty and durability

• Redwood is signiﬁcantly stronger and

requires less substructure

• Redwood stays comfortable to bare feet

all summer long

• Redwood has a natural resistance to

shrinking, warping and checking

• Redwood decking meets California’s

strict ﬁre codes

• Redwood maintains its natural

beauty and structural integrity with

easy maintenance

• Redwood is not only affordable, it adds

great value to your home

Abundant, renewable and

energy-efﬁcient, REDWOOD is

clearly the environmental choice.

Redwood is a natural choice for so

many reasons:

To ﬁnd out more about natural outdoor living,

or to get inspired, visit us at

RealStrongRedwood.com

Summary of content (6 pages)

PAGE 1
When It Comes To Eco-friendly Decking... Abundant, renewable and energy-efficient, REDWOOD is clearly the environmental choice.
PAGE 2
It turns out that making new plastic out of old plastic is not that green after all. Here’s What’s Real. Plastic is a petroleum product. Making plastic depletes the world’s oil reserves. Once made, it has only one final destination…the landfill. Making plastic or plastic-composite decking* out of recycled plastic only delays the inevitable. Especially compared with REDWOOD. Redwood is an abundant and renewable building material. It comes from sustainable, well-managed forests.
PAGE 3
Which label makes you THINK “green”? You can tell a lot about a product by looking at its label. If you want to help conserve energy and fresh water, and reduce solid waste, you want to choose redwood. There’s nothing artificial about redwood – no additives required. Before you attach a plastic-composite deck to your home, read the label.
PAGE 4
Compared with redwood, is plastic lumber green or just green wash? Preserving and Nurturing. A sustainable FUTURE for our redwood forests. Here are some charts to help you decide. All the members of the California Redwood Association (CRA) are committed to sound forest management practices to ensure that our forests will remain healthy, beautiful and productive for generations to come. A recent Life Cycle Assessment measured the environmental impact of redwood and plastic decking.
PAGE 5
You can’t just say things. It’s one thing to claim that a product is environmentally friendly. It’s quite another to prove it. The CRA engaged the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The goal of the study was to quantify and compare the environmental impacts of a 100 sq. ft. redwood deck to a similar deck made of plastic and wood-plastic composite material over a 25-year lifespan in what is known as a cradle-to-grave LCA.
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When It Comes To Eco-friendly Decking... Abundant, renewable and energy-efficient, REDWOOD is clearly the environmental choice.