Danish documentary shows IKEA using unsustainable clearcuts in Romanian forests

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1. In other news water is wet

2. Why do they cut down trees when most of their furniture is now made of cardboard?

3. IKEA buy certified wood.

   The certification systems is just useless

4. yess !!! cut down the trees and ban the ducking cows .. it will surely solve the problem

5. There were quite a few articles about this, a few years ago. Nobody seemed to mind then either 🙂

6. If we only had laws, fines, consequences and actually applied them….

7. We knew this for years but nobody cares bc money.

8. In comparison with [exploiting Belarusian prisoners](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.politico.eu/article/ikea-contractors-produced-in-forced-labor-camps-in-belarus-for-years-reports-claim/&ved=2ahUKEwinlcHy8pyKAxVJ2wIHHZrqHigQFnoECCYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw08juHtw-HywBbYniIiCxk8) this is relatively harmless

9. They are sustainable. Trees still do grow.

10. Bet this is part of some souveranist narrative about how the “Evil Western Companies are stealing our resources”

11. Oh no! Furniture company chops down trees which it then proceeds to replant! How disgusting, we should ban all industry in Europe!

12. No surprise there. This is how all forestry is done in Sweden. *cries in Swedish*

13. I saw a documentary about this a few years ago. This is known. Just seems that people don’t care enough.

14. This is not an Ikea problem.

15. Ikea is a scam – look at the amount of cardboard they use ffs

    and the amount of swearing they create

16. IKEA just finding ways to be the most unsustainable, unethical company ever. But it was founded by a nazi so nothing new here

17. It’s not just IKEA. Basically our country is corrupt to the point they sell whatever they can. Our forests are being exploited for years , many times in highly debatable circumstances. They even tried to get away with selling a gold mine. Rosia Montana scandals come to mind.

18. I am also waiting for the Swedish documentary about JYSK. 🙂

19. Next up an unbiased ~~JYSK~~ ~~Danish~~ Independent Documentary will show you how IKEA supports Putin, and you should buy JYSK instead.

    True wholesome fact actually is that JYSK is still running stores in Ukraine, and reopening those that were bombed.

20. I’ve seen reports on this years ago

21. I bought an ikea cabinet and it was just compressed paper. Wish it was real wood!

22. Sounds like Romania should do something instead of just letting people cut everything left and right.

23. They’ve been doing this for decades. IKEA has very shady practices when it comes to stocking the wood needed for their furnitures.

    There is a very informative ARTE documentary about it which sheds light on how they’ve been using Poland and Romania forests to harvest unregistered wood which was not suitable for cutting, without control. They come, illegally cut trees who shouldn’t be cut having a strong negative impact on the territory, and then move onto the next lot.

    They’ve been doing this in their own country too and the whole “we use wood from responsible sources” is a huge greenwashing operation on their side.

    Also IKEA is the main partner of the international certification board FCA, so the board has a conflict of interests in which cannot fight IKEA unless it wants to lose its funding and position.

24. Why does anyone think RO was accepted into the EU and MD not. Because we are friends or because the big EU countries wanted to do us a favour? *Scoff

25. And underpaid Romanian workers for sure.

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