Commitment to Sustainability

Our mission is to repurpose wood waste into something that is safe for our customers to use and better for the environment.

USDA Certified

In 2022, we were certified by the USDA as a 100% Biobased Product. This certification let retailers and customers have a sense of comfort in purchasing and using our products. The certification verifies our product being 100% natural with no chemicals or additives. Our logs are made from sawdust that if not utilized by Green Mountain Fire may end up in a landfill that would harm the environment.

24 Million Pounds of Wood Waste Diverted

By transforming wood waste into clean, efficient fire products, Green Mountain Fire has kept more than 24 million pounds of material out of landfills.

That action alone has prevented an estimated 18,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere. To put that in perspective:

Equal to taking 4,000 cars off the road for an entire year
Or offsetting the electricity use of 2,500 American homes
Or the same climate benefit as planting over 800,000 trees and letting them grow for a year

Every fire you light with Green Mountain Fire is part of a bigger story:

Turning waste into warmth, and protecting the planet while doing it.

How We Calculate Our Impact

We use U.S. EPA and IPCC conversion factors to translate wood waste diverted into greenhouse gas reductions:

Tons of waste:

24,000,000 lbs ÷ 2,000 = 12,000 U.S. tons of wood waste diverted.
Methane avoided:

When wood decomposes in landfills without oxygen, it generates methane (CH₄), which is 25x more powerful than CO₂ as a greenhouse gas.

Factor: ~0.06 metric tons of CH₄ per ton of landfilled wood = ~1.5 metric tons CO₂e per ton.

12,000 tons × 1.5 metric tons CO₂e = 18,000 metric tons CO₂e avoided.
Equivalencies (EPA calculator):

18,000 metric tons CO₂e = emissions from 4,000 gasoline cars per year.

Or the electricity used by 2,500 U.S. homes per year.

Or the annual carbon absorption of 830,000+ trees.