What Is An Environmentally Friendly Stairway?
Any stairway that will decompose over
time and return to nature without creating toxic waste and wasn't
created by anything that produced toxic waste. This rules out every
single stairway that has been painted, glued and assembled with
galvanized nails or screws.
A real environmentally friendly stairway would be a stairway constructed
out of any rocks, trees or soil that has not been fabricated by any type
of machine that would require fuel or produce pollution, to make and
transport these materials.
One of the biggest problems with the word environmentally friendly is
that most of us don't think any further than the product itself. We see
a piece of wood or a neat looking rock and automatically feel like we
have something directly from nature, but this might not be the case.
Any parts for a stairway that can be purchased from a store or any place
that has transported or needs to transport these materials, while using
fossil fuels, might not fall into my category of environmentally
friendly.
Lumber that has been milled at a factory or from any type of saw that
requires power that can directly be traced back to some type of fossil
fuel usage or pollution, might not be what you're looking for.
In my opinion, an environmentally friendly set of stairs would be
something made out of mud, carved out of the hillside or shaped with
hand tools.
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