Still confused on FSC certified wood.
If we as FSC Certified woodworkers, create an assembly with FSC materials, and non FSC materials, that assembly cannot be claimed as an FSC certified. Yet the sample calculator shows that some of the assembly having non FSC veneer can count, which I believe to be incorrect. Any finished assembly claiming to be FSC certified has to ensure that all wood used, (including paper in the laminate or veneer) must be FSC certified, or that product cannot be label or sold as FSC certified. Now if a contractor wants to include this finished assembly for obtaining MRc7, technically they can only count the new wood portion of the finished assembly, so do we as woodworkers have to then, breakout the portions of wood that are new, as in plywood or any solid lumber, any portion of recycled wood, then any other non wood parts, and somehow calculate the weight of each portion, then come up with a cost to be applied to either MRc4 or MRc7? Not to mention if there is recycled content in any other portion of the assembly, aluminum, steel, etc... I have been told that we are to purchase and use all FSC Certified materials and invoice it as an FSC Certified product. so can any project actually use such an assembly to count towards the MRc7?
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