On 12/1/95 Bret Diamond wrote: [Clip] >Does the timber industry make any effort to recycle wood products (other than >paper)? As a contracter, it is very frustrating to fill a 20 yd dumpster >with perfectly good 2x4's etc. that can't be reused ala building codes >that don't permit it. The industry has consistatly fought efforts to >rewrite the building codes to allow for the use of "used lumber." After >all, they only profit on virgin materials. There are at least two facilities in the Willamette Valley that turn lumber scavanged from demolition projects into various kinds of particleboard. I presume that they would take the your used 2x4s as well. If you are generating lots of construction waste, you certainly ought to look into selling it to these mills. A couple of forest by-product companies, also in the Willamette Valley, take waste lumber and compost it. You have to pay them (less than what the land fill charges), but it is a way to route your waste to something more beneficial than the landfill.
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