On: Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has died

[dbrgn]

Ikea actually plans to become "forest positive": https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/ikea-sustai... The article is from 2012, not sure how far they progressed (true sustainability is difficult). I doubt they use any tropical wood though. Most of their wood supplies are already FSC certified.

[matthewmacleod → dbrgn]

Also worth pointing out that in the UK, the company now sends nothing to landfill itself (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38636272/ikea-sustaina...). And in France, they will accept old Ikea furniture and resell it at low cost (https://www.climatesolutionsplatform.org/solution/giving-fur...)

There are a few things to attack the company on; I’m not sure sustainability is one of their weak points.

[nicoburns → matthewmacleod]

Arguably they are one of the leading large companies with regard to sustainability. Most of their wood is fast growing pine, and they switched their entire lighting range over to LEDs way back in 2011 http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/IKEA_pulls_the...

[kalleboo → dbrgn]

Compared to the BBC article saying that in 2012 they failed to reach their goal of 35% "preferred sources" (undefined), they currently claim to source 50% of their wood from "sustainable sources" (defined as either recycled or FSC-certified)