Replace materials that cause future CO2 emissions

The carbon in other wood, plastics and composite products breaks down within a few years at the end of its life cycle, and the ENTIRE material converts to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This is the reason that there is such an urgent need to reduce greenhouse emissions right now. It is not only the current emissions levels that causes concern, but also the unavoidable 10, 20, and 50 year increases that those numbers will grow to, causing catastrophic global effects, that is the greatest concern. Breakdown products from vinyl decking and siding are particularly detrimental greenhouse gases. Vinyl (PVC) is 60% chlorine. PVC’s chlorine breakdown products such as Cl radicals, Cl ions, chlorine gas, OCl- (bleaches), chloroform, and hundreds of organochlorine compounds are some of the most predatory, most harmful, most aggressive greenhouse gases, and some are as much as 15,000 times more harmful than plain carbon dioxide.

The average useful life of vinyl is 10 years, and most of the degradation and environmental damage occurs in the next 20 years. Every 10 th year, a vinyl replacement deck is added and a new 30-year degradation and emissions release profile is superimposed over the emissions for the previous deck. The dashed red line represents the cumulative releases of vinyl over the first 50 years. The
cumulative greenhouse gas emissions for PVC, adjusted to equivalents for CO2, for just one average PVC deck, is 2.5 Million lbs.

TimberSIL® Products not only do not contain chlorine, but they prevent/replace vinyl-associated greenhouse gas emissions every time TimberSIL® Products replace vinyl products. The declining green line represents the cumulative decline in emissions that happens whenever TimberSIL® Products are used. All products containing carbon that is not permanently sequestered will eventually release all of their carbon back to the environment, and make our global warming problems worse. Composite decking products are composed of petroleum and tiny wood fibers, all of which decompose ultimately to carbon dioxide. The image (left) shows that for just one average deck, over a 50 year period approximately 350,000 pounds of CO2 will be released to the atmosphere (with deck and replacements of composite materials such as Trex®) or 350,000 pounds of releases will be PREVENTED with one long lasting TimberSIL® Products deck.