Tag: Wood recycling
July 6, 2018
FTP joins new EU project
The European wood processing industries and the waste management sector have joined forces to increase expertise of wood waste collection and recycling in the construction sector. WoodCircus is a joint project initiative of FTP and 17 European research organizations and companies. Led by VTT (Finland), the project will evaluate the sector’s efficiency and recycling performance, […]
February 15, 2018
3.1 Resource efficiency in manufacturing
Rationale A growing world population and people’s legitimate claims for better living standards in less developed countries are putting increasing pressure on natural resources. The sustainable solution to meeting these needs with available resources is to significantly increase resource efficiency in the area of raw materials and energy. The European Union’s 2020 Strategy contains a […]
2.5 Resource-efficient use, reuse and recycling systems
Rationale Wood and wood-based products have the potential to be re-used repeatedly as raw material. Waste from harvesting operations and wood processing is regularly used as high-value raw material for other types of processing. Low-value treetops and branches, stumps and roots, crude tall oil and other first and second generation biorefinery products contain chemically-attractive components […]
