Green Shutters
Q: What
do we mean by GREEN SHUTTERS?
A: Park Avenue Drapery is
taking action to protect our environment.
Environmentalists and economists call pollution an
externality: an unwanted side effect of individual or
company behavior, shared by a larger community. Examples
of relevant externalities include: the use of plastic
and other non-sustainable resources for shutter
materials; excess Volatile Organic Compound (greenhouse
gas) emissions from outmoded painting processes;
off-shoring material procurement and shutter
manufacturing to countries that lack environmental
controls.
Material:
Park Avenue Drapery uses
whole, North American Basswood or
Poplar, a sustainable and renewable resource.
Basswood and Poplar in the
Great Lakes region is harvested on a sustainable yield
basis. North American Basswood and
Poplar is grown faster than it is consumed,
creating a net positive effect on carbon emissions, land
utilization and greenhouse gases. Wood that fails
Park Avenue Shutters’ quality
standards, along with scrap and sawdust, is sold to
other manufacturers, composters and soil amendment
processors.
Coatings:
Local
Manufacturing: Park Avenue
Shutters makes all its shutters in our
Phoenix Arizona facility.
Local manufacturing conserves fossil fuels (in
shipping), generates local employment, and continues to
meet some of the world’s most rigorous environmental
standards for VOCs, waste disposal and materials’ usage.
Park Avenue
Shutters’ commitment to green manufacturing has been
recognized and honored |
