How sustainable are MDF, acrylic and pine(wood)?
MDF = Medium Density Fibreboard, It’s man made, but it’s biodegradable in that it is wood fibres, wax and resin compressed at high pressure. Mostly pine wood funnily enough. Outside of the energy expended in creating it, it’s carbon neutral unless treated with surface chemicals. Acrylic is derived from oil, so it isn’t sustainable and it contributes to greenhouse gases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylic_aci… Pine wood is carbon neutral, the carbon it captured during growth is released during decomposition. Carbon Capture Storage is in this particular trio of substances organic, ie the planting of a tree to replace a tree or the planting of a tree to absorb carbon released from the burning of fossil fuel. As you can’t plant enough trees to compensate for all three the hierarchy is pine, MDF, acrylic in terms of sustainability.
