Transcription of What do the FSC Labels Mean? A FSC 100%
1 Forest Stewardship Council . FSC United Kingdom what do the FSC Labels Mean? A FSC 100%. All the timber or fibre in an FSC. 100% product comes from an FSC. B FSC Mix certified forest. FSC 100% products are processed using the FSC. The timber or fibre in an FSC Mix product is a mixture of some/all of the following: transfer system'. Virgin timber/fibre from an FSC certified forest Reclaimed/recycled timber/fibre Virgin timber/fibre from C FSC Recycled other controlled sources A B C. (Controlled Wood) All timber or fibre in an FSC. Recycled product must If the product is produced be pre-consumer or post- under the FSC percentage consumer reclaimed. For system' it must contain wood products produced a minimum of 70% FSC under the FSC percentage certified wood/fibre and/or system' a minimum of 70%.
2 Post-consumer input, and the of the inputs must be post- balance must be controlled consumer reclaimed; there wood and/or pre-consumer is no threshold for paper reclaimed material. In paper products, but all inputs must products, both pre-consumer be verified as reclaimed. FSC. and post-consumer Recycled products can also reclaimed materials count as be produced under the FSC. valid FSC' inputs. credit' or transfer' systems. If the product is produced under the FSC credit 1 2 3. system', there is no minimum FSC Certified FSC Controlled FSC/post-consumer input, Forests Wood Reclaimed 3 Reclaimed however, only a proportion of products (relative to Post-consumer reclaimed: the FSC/postconsumer Material that is reclaimed inputs) can be labelled 2 FSC Controlled Wood from consumer or commercial and/or promoted as FSC products that have been used FSC Controlled Wood is material from acceptable certified.
3 For their intended purpose by sources that can be mixed with FSC-certified material in products that carry the FSC Mix label . To count as end-users. FSC Controlled Wood a material's forest of origin must be risk assessed against the FSC Controlled Wood Pre-consumer reclaimed: 1 FSC Certified standards and found to be at a low risk of being: Forestry Commission; FSC UK; Arjow Wiggins Forests Material that is reclaimed Illegally logged from a process of secondary FSC certified forests Harvested from areas where there is violation of manufacture or further are managed with traditional or civil rights downstream industry, in consideration for Harvested from forests in which high conservation which the material has not people, wildlife and values are threatened by management activities been intentionally produced.
4 The environment. They is unfit for end-use; is Harvested from areas being converted from not capable of being re- are independently forests and other wooded ecosystems to used on-site in the same audited to meet plantations or non forest uses FSC's Principles and manufacturing process that Harvested from forests in which genetically generated it. Examples Criteria for Forest modified (GM) trees are planted include sawdust, damaged Management. stock and off-cuts. FSC United Kingdom The Billiard Room Town Hall Great Oak Street Llanidloes Powys SY18 6BN. 01686 413 916 FSC F000231.
