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Re: Recycling used lumber



On 12/5/95 Mark writes:


> 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.


Thanks to Mark and the others that made excellent suggestions as to
alternatives for used wood disposal.  I was remiss in not mentioning that
right here in the Rogue Valley is a company called BiomassOne, that takes
wood waste products and converts them to electricity via a steam
generator.  I guess my real point was that we could reduce our demand for
raw timber products if we could reuse suitable lumber in construction,
which of course is the primary end-product of the most of the logging
that occurs here in the PNW.

Bret Diamond
Oregon, USA
diam9018@tao.sosc.osshe.edu



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