Home Depot May Have Illegal African Wood in Its Doors, EIA Says

11/10/2023 06:39
Home Depot May Have Illegal African Wood in Its Doors, EIA Says

More than a million doors made with illegally sourced Central African wood may have ended up on US retail shelves at companies including Home Depot Inc. due to lax supply chain oversight, an environmental group said.

More than a million doors made with illegally sourced Central African wood may have ended up on US retail shelves at companies including Home Depot Inc. due to lax supply chain oversight, an environmental group said.

At least 1.2 million doors sold to US consumers between 2017 and 2022 have a “high likelihood” of containing illegal okoume wood from Equatorial Guinea labeled as having originated in the Republic of Congo, the Washington- and London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said in a report Tuesday. The logs were exported to China, processed in Asia and imported by North Carolina-based door manufacturer Jeld-Wen Holding Inc., EIA said.

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