| Natural wooden toys have been around for many | | | | wooden toys. When natural wooden toys are sent |
| centuries, be it a child's rocking horse or the spinning | | | | for recycling they are made mainly into woodchip |
| top, just for examples. Recently they have started | | | | which is used for walkways around parks and |
| to make a comeback in children's play, maybe due to | | | | woodland areas. It can be used in the garden too as |
| being able to carve with more precision using up to | | | | a weed inhibitor if placed on top soil around borders. |
| date technology, which makes childrens wooden toys | | | | It is also none toxic and harmless to children and |
| look more realistic, they also have less impact on the | | | | animals. Natural wooden toys and wood in general is |
| environment compared to the petroleum based | | | | not going to landfill sites so as to prevent methane |
| plastic and rubber toys of today. | | | | build up and to use less landfill area. |
| Now that the environment is at the forefront of the | | | | Plastic however may take fifty to eighty years to |
| news, being at least once a week, the natural | | | | decompose and in some cases it never will. |
| wooden toys have clear advantages over plastic. The | | | | Petroleum-derived plastics are designed not to be |
| trees that are felled for the natural wooden toys are | | | | biodegradable and burning them releases toxic |
| replaced by sustainable forest and are managed to | | | | chemicals into the environment. |
| this end. Where as plastics made from oil based | | | | The future looks good for natural wooden toys, they |
| bi-products, have high impact in manufacture for the | | | | last for years and so they can be passed on to |
| environment and the oil cannot be replaced. | | | | future generations, which is in itself another |
| There is also the disposable aspect of natural | | | | environmental advantage. |