The DIY store, B&Q, has more than 16,000 products that contain wood or wood derivatives. To name but a few, sawn timber, wallpaper, flooring, doors, furniture, hand tools, books, decking, fencing, firewood, sheds, paint brushes, windows, garden furniture and plywood.
 
The retailer claims that from this month one hundred percent of the timber in these products will be from renewable sources. They are dedicated to buying from sources where legal, social and environmental standards have been met and independently verified.
 
B&Q first started buying renewable timber twenty years ago, and last year reported that ninety percent of its wood was from responsible sources.
 
Update:
Daily Mail states: 'DIY giants Wickes and B&Q selling illegally felled wood feared to have been illegally harvested from endangered rainforests harbouring the world’s dwindling orang-utan population. The FSC was warned in 2010 that the products contained a high proportion of rainforest hardwood. iI was claimed, the wood should not have been given FSC certification indicating that it was ‘responsibly sourced’. A forestry expert shopper later said analysis of Asia Plywood bought at both B&Q and Wickes in Stockport showed high proportions of hardwood likely to be from Sarawak rainforest.'
 
Does this now call into question the trust consumers can have in FSC wood?