The FSC mark is a guarantee of environmentally sound garden furniture

The world’s tropical forests are in danger of being wiped out by illegal felling of trees and people trying to make a quick profit. In actual fact tropical forests can only be saved by means of sustainable forestry. All of us are responsible for looking after our planet, and this includes trade and industry as well. JYSK is one of the world's largest dealers in FSC-marked (Forest Stewardship Council) garden furniture, which is the customer's guarantee that the furniture is manufactured in a sustainable way in terms of environment, living conditions and trade. The mark also means that, as consumers, we can trace the wood that our garden furniture is made of back to the place where the trees grew. In this way we guarantee that none of our furniture comes from illegal forestry or has been traded via corrupt middlemen and authorities. FSC production also takes those people who work in the forests as well as their working conditions and the onward work on the wood into consideration.

JYSK backs FSC Approximately 75 per cent of all our wooden garden furniture carries the FSC mark and the ones that don’t are items of furniture made out of teak wood. It is however very difficult to obtain FSC marked teak wood and for political reasons JYSK does not purchase teak in Myanmar which generally has undressed teak of high quality. JYSK only buys CoC marked teakwood from countries like Java and Costa Rica. CoC (Chain of Custody) ensures that the wood is legal and does not come from threatened tropical forests, for example. It can also be traced down to the individual factory and all wooden garden furniture from JYSK has gone through the COC system as a minimum.

JYSK works to extend the use of FSC products and as a result we have been commended by the Worldwide Fund for Nature. We do this, amongst other things, via the TFT (Tropical Forest Trust) of which we are actually co-founders. The TFT invests specifically in forest regions and factories which live up to the strictest requirements for social and environmental standards. Read more at www.tropicalforesttrust.com and www.fsc.org.Link