Is pine environmentally friendly?

Question

Is pine environmentally friendly?

Answer 1

Pine wood is environmentally friendly as compost. The scent of pine is aerosols is just as damaging to the environment as any other aerosol.

Answer 2

Pine is a quick growing tree making it a good choice for sustainable harvesting, one of the reasons it is commonly used for furniture.

Make sure as many wooden products as possible that you buy bear the FSC mark.

http://www.fsc.org/en/

Answer 3

Pine is friendly in the sense that it is a renewable resource. It grows very quickly and a tree is pretty well full-grown for timber at 20 years (for most species). Trees grown for paper are cut down at ten years. Pine forests remain constant in size because they are quicklyand easily replanted. Did you know that Russia's Siberian pine forests represent 25% of the world's forests?

Answer 4

A pine, like any other plant or animal lives in relationship to it's environment.

It is unfriendly to other competing plants and animals that try to eat it. It is friendly to some fungii & bacteria that help it grow. It holds the soil to reduce errosion. It affects the local climate to maintain favourable conditions for it's growth, eg transpiration for local rain.

As a timber for human use it depends on how, where grown, and how much is used and how & where. Any transport, processing and consumption and disposal will have an environmental impact.

eg clear cut Siberian tiga exported to Japan for one use concrete shuttering is not environmentally freindly.

A replaced yew used by a local cabinet maker for a piece of furniture that will last 100years will not be as unfreiendly.

Answer 5

errrm....

yea.

Although it kinda an opinion, y'know.

I know a few peeps that tinx pine b an unsociable wood, quite stuck-up....