How our Timber is Used
Timber from Victorian native forests is used in many products we use everyday.
- The house that you live in may have a frame, windows or doors that are constructed using Victorian native timber.
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You may have wooden floorboards, or a beautiful wooden bench or cabinets in your kitchen and bathrooms.
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Your chairs, tables, TV cabinet, sideboards and other furniture may be from trees harvested and then replanted by VicForests.
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Outside, you may have fences, pergolas, decks that have come from Victorian native timber
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Each of these items store carbon that has been taken out of the air while the tree was growing. This carbon remains locked up in the wood for the life of the product. Even paper that is taken to landfill can retain the carbon within it until it rots (sometimes up to 50 years). Toilet paper and tissues do not come from our native forests, but instead are sourced from plantations, both within Australia and overseas. The type of trees grown in Victoria's native forests would produce horrible toilet paper that would be very strong and rough – not smooth like the toilet paper we now use. |
