Contact Your Suppliers

Contacting the suppliers of your company’s wood and paper products is an integral part of implementing a more sustainable forest resources product procurement policy.

Please:

  1. Tell your suppliers you wish to specify and purchase FSC-certified wood and paper products.  
  2. Tell your suppliers you wish to avoid products certified by the SFI and other weak programs, since they don’t meet your standard for environmentally responsible forestry.
  3. Tell your suppliers about your procurement policy’s other environmental goals.

Samples

Sample letter to suppliers

Sample Product Specification Language

FSC US’ sample bid and contract language for building products.

Fully independent and not overly influenced by timber industry. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Strong forest and environmental protection standards. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Strong community protection standards. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Product content monitoring (chain of custody) consistently required. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Consistent link between product labels/claims and certified forests. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Strong certification and accreditation process. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Transparency and public participation consistently required. FSC:YES SFI:NO
Certifies some of the most environmentally destructive timber companies in North America. FSC:NO SFI:YES

Certification System Characteristics

more comparisons