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Anders Berglund is the co-owner of IKEA Seattle, the popular Swedish-based home furnishing retailer. Earth Share of Washington (ESW) recently interviewed Mr. Berglund regarding IKEA’s leadership in the areas of sustainable design, resource conservation, & forestry, and IKEA Seattle’s strides to become a better corporate steward of the natural world.
IKEA is probably best known for its cutting edge home furnishings at affordable prices, featuring modern designs with a Scandanavian flair. Perhaps lesser known are IKEA’s social and environmental initiatives. Their focus is on designing products that use fewer raw materials and create less waste. By working in close cooperation with their suppliers, they can monitor all aspects of a product’s life, from choice of raw material through production and distribution. IKEA does not accept wood from intact natural forests or from forests with a clearly defined high conservation value. Instead, they source all wood from verified, well-managed forests that have been certified according to a forest management standard.
This spring, Earth Share of Washington linked IKEA Seattle with the NW Biodiesel Network, so that they can begin to recycle the waste cooking oil from their cafe and turn it into biodiesel, a clean and renewable vehicle fuel.
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Source: esw.org
