A planetary atlas of material flowsOpening this view…
Start with an everyday object or material.
Jump directly to a material, regional account or named facility.
From forests to buildings, furniture and fibre. Follow wood through manufacture, long-term use, reuse, recovery and energy.
Forestry supplies logs for different product streams. The trade category shown here covers unprocessed wood.
Harvest residues are outside the log shipment.
Sawmilling and other processing create material for construction and manufactured products.
Bark, sawdust and offcuts can have separate uses.
Wood can remain in service in buildings and furniture. Repair and reuse extend that use.
Coatings and treatments affect later options.
Separate reusable components and suitable material from mixed or contaminated waste.
Treated or contaminated wood may need a different route.
Recovery can retain components or turn suitable wood into another material. Hartland has a separately documented landfill-cover use for certain mixed inputs.
Landfill cover is not a new furniture product.
Explore the local operations and regional systems that collect, transform and recover this material.
Checking available records…
A commodity trade record identifies reported goods and countries. It does not establish forest management, legality, biodiversity impacts or product certification.