What are Trees Used For
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T rees provide material for products you use every day. Once a tree has changed shape and becomes a product, it’s easy to forget that it once was a tree. The tree may be used as solid wood, fibers, chemicals, lignin (nature’s glue that holds wood fibers together) or fillers and bases for various day-today items. Here’s a list of items that rely on trees or tree derivatives for their production: Acetone Activated carbon Adhesives Agricultural chemicals Aircraft propellers Alcohol Algaecides Altars Ammunition Antifoaming agents Apartment houses Arrows Art pads and pens Artificial snow Artificial vanilla flavoring Asbestos replacement Ashtray bases Asphalt Atlases and maps Auto body undercoating Award certificates Axe handles Baker’s poles Baking cups Bar tops Barns and sheds Barrels Baseboards and moldings Basketball courts Bats Bean poles Beds Beer cartons Bibles Billboard posters Billiard tables Bird houses Blackboards Boat caulking Boats and canoes Book paper Bookcases Bookends Boot jacks Bowling lanes Bowling pins Bowsprits Boxes Bread wrapping Bridges Broom handles Buckets Buttons Cabinets Cable reels Camera cases Candlesticks Canes Carpenter vices Carpeting Caskets Casters Cattle feed Caulking compounds Ceiling tiles Ceiling timbers Cellophane Cement dispersant Ceramics Chairs and tables Charcoal Christmas trees Church pews Cider Cider presses Cistern covers Cleaning compounds Clipboards Clocks Clothes racks Coasters Concrete forms Confetti Container labels Cooking utensils Corks Corn cribs Corrosion inhibitors Corrugated cartons Cosmetics Crates Creosote Crepe paper Cribs Croquet balls and mallets Cruise ship decks Crutches Curtain rods Cutting boards Darning eggs Decorative paneling Decoys Desk pads Desks Diapers Diplomas Display cases Diving boards Docks Doll houses Doors Draperies and bedspreads Drums Dust palliatives Easels Egg cartons Electrical receptacles Elevator cabs Enamel and wood stain Epoxy resins Exercise boards Facial and bath tissues Feed bins Fence posts Fencing Fertilizer Fiber tubes Fine printing papers Fire ladders Fireplaces Fishing floats and tackle Flagpoles Flashlight cases Flooring Flypaper Foam rubber Football helmets Foundry cores Freight cars Frozen food packages Fruits and nuts Fuel Fungicides Furniture Game pieces and cartons Gangplanks Garden Stakes Garment bags Gavels Gift boxes Glasses frames Goal posts Golf club heads Golf tees Greenhouses Grocery sacks Guitars Gum Gummed tape Gun racks Gunstocks Hair spray Hammers Hand cleaners Handrails Hardboard tempering oil Highway surfaces Hockey sticks Hog troughs Horse jumps Humidors Hurdles Incense Industrial patterns Industrial toweling Insecticides Insoles and heels for shoes Instrument panels Insulation backing Javelins Jewelry Kegs Kennels Kites Knife handles Lacquer Lacrosse rackets Laxative Leather tanning Lighting fixtures Linoleum Liquid nail polish Liquid soap Loading platforms Lobster pots/floats Log houses Lubricants Luggage Lumber Magazines Manure spreaders Map tubes Maple syrup Masking tape Masts Matches Medical stretchers Medicine Metronomes Milk containers Mirror backs Missile and radar domes Models Mousetraps Movies Name tags Napkins Newspaper Nitrating pulp for artillery Novelties Oars and paddles Observation towers Oil well drilling compounds Organs Oxygen Paint Paint remover Pallets Panel boards Paper plates/cups Paper towels Parallel bars Park benches Parking tickets Particleboard Pencils Penetrating oil Phenolic resins Photographic film Photographic slides Piano keys Pianos Picnic tables Picture frames Piling Pine oil disinfectant Ping pong balls Pipe racks Pipes Planters Plaques Plywood Polo mallets Pontoons Pool cues Popsicle sticks Postage stamps Poultry feed Poultry houses Power poles Price tags Printing ink Pulpits and podiums Puzzles Rafts Railroad crossing gates Railroad ties Rakes Rayon Record covers Reservoir covers Restaurant placemats Riot sticks Rolling pins Roof gutters Roofing compounds Roofs Rubber addition agents Rubber tires Rulers Sailboats Salad sets Salt and pepper shakers Sandboxes Sausage casings Sawdust Sawhorses Schools Schools desks Scythes Seeding pots Sewing machine tables Shade Shelf paper Shipyards timbers Shoe trees Shovel handles Shutters Signs Skis Sleds Sleighs Snowshoes Soil additives Spacecraft reentry shields Speakers Stables Stadium seats Stage sets Stairways Stationery Steering wheels Stirrups Surgical gowns Surveyor stakes Swings Taffy sticks Tambourines Tar remover Tax forms Telephone books Telephone stands Tennis racquets Tent poles Tires Tobacco rolling papers Toboggans Toilet seats Toothpicks Totem poles Tongue depressors Toys Trailers and mobile homes Trellises Tripods Truck bodies Trunks Turpentine TV trays Typewriter stands Umbrella handles Vacation cottages Vacuum bags Varnish Venetian blinds Vinegar Violins Wagons Waste receptacles Water treatment Waterproofing Wax for carbon paper and polishes Windbreaks Windmills Window frames Wine racks Work benches World globes Wrapping paper Yachts Yardsticks Yeast and the list goes on…
