People are recycling all over the world in a vain attempt to save a planet that we have tried our best to use up. This little blue marble had plenty of resources when we got here but in the last 100 years, we have found some very innovative ways to strip it. Now we are trying to find innovative ways to slow the depletion process down. The home decorating industry is no exception. There are eco-friendly choices that we can make when decorating our home and this is especially true of the flooring that we choose to use. Here are the top four eco-friendly floors.

1. Bamboo Floors
2. Hardwood Floors
3. Engineered Hardwood Floors
4. Cork Floors

Bamboo Is The Diamond Of The Flooring World

Bamboo floors are the best floors on the market as far as staying power. Once the leftover strips of regular bamboo are fused with strips of engineered bamboo, you have the hardest flooring substance around. Bamboo is actually a grass. From sprout to maturity, full-grown bamboo takes five years to grow. It is already an extremely hard substance. The flooring that is made from bamboo is actually strand woven to make it even stronger. It does not wear out like regular flooring and is very resistant to chipping or cracking. Bamboo is just a great flooring material all the way around.

Grow Your Own

What is hardwood flooring doing on an eco-friendly material list? It is a no brainer, as long as you purchase FSC-certified hardwood, which comes from FSC-certified forests. (FSC = Forest Stewardship Council) They are the most responsible harvesters of hardwood in the world. These forests are grown for the purposes of harvesting which is how we should have been doing it all along. It makes a kind of planet saving sense that if you want hardwood for a floor, plant and harvest hardwood trees and leave the rest of the world\’s forests alone. There is nothing like a all natural hardwood floor for beauty and durability.

Made From Scrap

Engineered hardwood floors are even better than hardwood floors because they are made from hardwood waste. This means that nothing goes to waste and that is a good thing. It proves that beauty can come from a recycled product.

Pop The Cork On Your Floor

The absolute best eco-friendly planet friendly flooring to use is cork flooring. This is another waste recycling product, which uses the old corks from wine bottles and the bark from the cork tree. The best thing about this is that the bark can be taken without killing the tree and it grows back in nine years. Since the tree lives for two hundred plus years, the same trees can be used over again many times. Keeping leftover cork out of the landfills is totally worth it.

The Losers

Other types of floors are never going to be eco-friendly, like the carpet tile floors, which use some pretty harsh chemicals in them that can aggravate and even sicken those that are sensitive to those chemicals. You would not want your baby crawling around on it, that\’s for sure. Vinyl is bad for the environment in the way that it is manufactured but if it has one redeeming quality, it is that you do not need harsh chemicals to clean it. It is also very easy to install. However, if you want to help save the planet, stop buying it so they can stop polluting the air making it.

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