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FLOORING OPTIONS (ECO LifeStyle Home Kits included one or more green choices.)
Green Flooring Choices:
Bamboo: Bamboo is a grass product harvested in China and Southeast Asia. It grows extremely fast- regenerating without need for replanting or fertilizers!
Cork: Harvested predominantly in the Mediterranean region of the world, cork flooring is made from the compressed bark of the cork tree. No trees are cut down at all!
Lyptus: a flooring product that is a hybrid of two species of eucalyptus trees. The trees grow to full size in less than 25 years and are being used extensively in replanting the rain forests of South America.
What makes a product green?. An excellent article from Building Green.com
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Other ECO issues to consider about your flooring.
Installation
Use adhesives with low VOCs. Choose water-based finishes over solvent-based ones.Use and maintenance
Once installed, some floors continue to give off gas compounds.Avoid less durable floors, which have to be replaced more often.Avoid high-maintenance floors that use harsh chemicals.Consider floors that don’t have to be refinished.End of life
What will happen to the floor when it has reached the end of its life cycle?Can the floor be recycled or reused?Can the floor be donated to a charity?
LIGHTING ECO-IMPROV OPTIONS (ECO LifeStyle Home Kits included CFL and other green choices.)
