OLD WOOD. NEW USE. POSITIVE CHANGE.

Business and Activism

In a world where ecology connects all of us inextricably, from one end of the earth to the other, it is essential that people try to understand and take responsibility for the repercussions of their consumer choices. Tropical Salvage offers a conduit to access accurate information about logging industry practices in southeast Asia and an opportunity to buy responsibly, thereby choosing reform of needlessly destructive policies and practices.

The disappearance of old-growth tropical forests in the developing world is largely influenced by the developed world's demand for exotic wood products, its demand for wood pulp to supply industrial paper production, and its demand for industrial commodity quantities of agricultural products whose cultivation converts biologically diverse ecosystems into vast monoculture plantations. Salvaged wood provides all the same benefits, without the high environmental costs.

Read about our salvage strategies.

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On the roadside lie 150-year-old teak beams salvaged from a demolished building in Indonesia.




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