Barking Up The Right Tree

Every year an area half the size of the UK is cleared of natural forests: temperate and tropical, North and South and on every continent. These forests, which once covered half of the planet, are irreplaceable and their loss has profound economic, social and environmental impacts. Sixty million indigenous people and countless species of plants and animals are wholly dependent on forests to live and forests support up to 1.6 billion of the poorest people in the world.

The products of this illegal trade can be found throughout the UK, from building sites to private homes, and gardens. At Fat leaf we do everything within our power to ensure we do not contribute to this environmental disaster.

We only use timber from produced from sustainable sources

We only buy from FSC certified suppliers

Wherever possible our timber is harvested and milled in the UK

We are in the process of applying for FSC chain of custody certification although we are only in our first year of operation

Our environmental responsibility goes further than assuring our timber supplies. It also applies to the methods used to treat our timber, and how we try to conduct our business on a daily basis.

We only use Tanalith E pressure treated Timber. As well as offering long term protection from rot, Tanalith E is also the  most environmentally friendly preservative available on the market today

We only use Biodegradable foam for packaging (no polystyrene)

We recycle all of our incoming packaging as packaging for our own products

Our waste wood is used by local artists and for heating

Our waste sawdust is reused by artists and local butchers