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Redwood Decking Plastic Decking
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.
Redwood is an abundant and renewable building material.
It comes from sustainable, well-managed forests. Each year
we grow more than we harvest. The lumber produced from
those trees is one of nature’s longest lasting, strongest, most
beautiful and environmentally friendly building materials.
So when you build your deck, be sure to measure the
environmental footprint as well as the physical footprint.
* Plastic-composite decking is a man-made material made from
plastic and sawdust.
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It turns out that making
new plastic out of old plastic
is not that green after all.
Especially compared
with REDWOOD.
Renewable
Milled
Stores a Lot Of Carbon
Biodegradable
Non-renewable
Molded or Extruded
Emits a Lot Of Carbon
Not Biodegradable
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Here’s where redwood
comes from. It grows from
sprouts or seeds using
soil, sun and water.
When it is fully grown, it can
be sustainably harvested
and milled to produce
one of nature’s strongest
and most beautiful
building materials.
Redwood decks store
carbon throughout
their lives. They use
significantly less energy
and fresh water – nearly
15 times less of each!
Redwood is biodegradable.
When it’s done adding
beauty to your home,
it goes back to the earth
to help make more trees.
Here’s where a lot of the
raw material for your
plastic-composite deck
comes from…an oil well.
Making plastic lumber is
a process of combining
petroleum-based plastic
with artificial ingredients,
colorants, binding agents,
fillers and the like. It can
be molded or extruded.
A plastic-composite
deck consumes 15 times
more energy than a
redwood deck – and 87%
of that energy comes from
non-renewable fossil fuels,
a major source of
carbon emissions.
When it’s done being a
plastic deck, it goes to
the landfill.
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