Thursday, July 26, 2012

No tropical timber on German grills

 - NABU recommends environmentally friendly briquettes from olive stones
Berlin (ots) - Summertime is grilling time and with the warmest months of land each year about 300,000 tons of charcoal grills on Germany. What many consumers do not know: Almost two thirds of which come from South American tropical forests, from Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. This still can be grilled in good conscience, recommend the NABU to rely on climate-friendly coal types, such as from olive pits.

"To get olive pit briquettes offer an environmentally sound and sustainable tropical timber, but also powerful alternative to conventional charcoal. Charge you either domestic or tropical forests and thus help the 'green lung' of the world," said Leif Miller, Director NABU. To support the sale of green olive pit briquettes, NABU has been working this year with the manufacturer OlioBric. This is a patented process in the region of Kalamata olives richest / Peloponnese ago ecologically sound timber briquettes.

toy made of tropical timber with proof of origin

Wooden car Cochecito: the first toy made of tropical timber with proof of origin.
Gaps sustainably from the forest into the nursery.

Cochecito is the first wooden toys from certified tropical timber origin. The timber of the eight components of the toy wooden cars comes from a forest of Bonn investment provider ForestFinance ecologically managed forests in Panama. Each buyer will receive the local Cochecito-GPS data, with which he can see exactly where the timber is grown for the wooden car - a unique approach in the market for wooden toys. Once: Toy certified with proof of origin from sustainable timber industry. The wood-Cochecito car is offered under www.treeshop.de.

This Forest Finance is the first distributor of timber products, whose path can be traced back to its roots. In contrast to tropical timber is a seamless traceability, for example, for beef in Germany is already common. TreeShop.de breaks new ground and delivers its products directly to the GPS data of the forest where the trees planted and harvested has been. By typing in Google Earth, customers can trace the exact origin of the timber and explore the surrounding area virtually. "This is the end of cheating with certified timber," says