| Environmental Policies
for Wood The Alan McIlvain Company
has a clear environmental policy and a clear
environmental purchasing policy for wood and wood
products.
The environmental policy is based on two founding
principles:
Forests, forest functions and products, including woods,
contribute to human well being worldwide. Every country,
including the USA must value its forests and strive for
equity in access to the benefits which forests provide.
The ultimate responsibility for forest policy lies with
the sovereign Government and people of individual
forested countries. They have the task of balancing
environmental, economic, social and political needs.
Nevertheless, The Alan McIlvain Company believes that the
U.S. timber industry has a responsibility to its
customers, suppliers and staff to base its commercial
activities on properly managed forests.
In acknowledging these principles:
1. The Alan McIlvain Company is
committed to sustainable forest management. It promotes
efforts to achieve the fastest practicable progress
towards environmentally sound permanent forest management
worldwide.
2. The Alan McIlvain Company supports
responsible national and international efforts which
focus attention on the various threats to the world's
productive forests.
3. The Alan McIlvain Company encourages
the use of wood as an environmentally acceptable and
renewable material and is constantly seeking beneficial
ways to reduce wood waste and to utilize residues.
4. In relation to tropical forests The
Alan McIlvain Company asks suppliers to show evidence
that they and their respective Governments are
undertaking practical measures to implement the ITTO
Objective 2000; and urges the U.S. Government to maintain
and increase aid and other positive assistance to those
tropical countries which are endeavoring to implement the
ITTO "Guidelines for the Sustainable Management
of Natural Tropical Forests."
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Purchasing Policy for
Wood & Wood Products 1. The
Alan McIlvain Company will seek the clearest practical
information regarding product sources. At a minimum, this
will include country of origin. The Alan McIlvain Company
will also seek evidence of good practice and forest
management from all suppliers of wood products. Labels or
certificates warranting sustainability will not be
acceptable unless they have the approval of the Forestry
Department/Ministry of source countries which have
established comprehensive national forestry action plans,
or until such time as an internationally acceptable
criteria for sustainability is established by a
recognized authority.
2. The Alan McIlvain Company will give
preference to suppliers of all wood products from sources
providing information on good silviculture and logging
practices, and which are operating within the forestry
laws of the country concerned.
3. Specifically with respect to
tropical wood products, The Alan McIlvain Company will
give preference to purchases from countries demonstrating
commitment to, and the implementation of, Objective
2000 and implementation of "Guidelines for
the Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical
Forests," of the International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTO).
4. The Alan McIlvain Company subscribes
to the evolution of more efficient use of the forest
resources and the wood derived from them. In this respect
it supports concepts of using a wider variety of species
when silviculturally and ecologically appropriate and
making greater economic and practical use of raw material
including residues and waste.
5. The Alan McIlvain Company expects to
review and extend this policy as deemed necessary.
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