Posted By CC
Hi all
Has anyone got any ideas how to get rid of waste wood on site? Hard wood is the packaging for our materials that we ship from China and India. It is good quality but it has large nails in the ends and has been fumigated before shipping. the lengths are about 6ft. No body wants it for free in the Derbyshire area.
I have phoned round a few compnies and the only options I have come up with are, buying a chipper,(the one we would need would cost abotu £150k)recycling, quoted between £500 - £600 a week, or firewood (not so happy about members of the public collecting wood from our site. (and its summer)
we do have a license to burn but not in the quanitities we would need. The other suggestion is long term, getting an incinerator and heating the building with it. costly but long term probably saving.
Has anyone got any practical solutions to this problem?

Posted By Sally
Depending on what it has been fumigated with and whether there would be any residule hazards try contacting your local scout campsite - they often look for free sources of wood to burn.

Posted By CC
Thanks very helpful

I am trying out all suggestions in the board meeting tomorrow.

Hopefully aomeone will create something that is universal and reusable instead of the wood bracing. Save the environment!!

Posted By Robert K Lewis
There are some real problems with waste wood as the uses are fairly limited and the major routes have been given and you have no doubt thought about them in some detail. The primary route has been to the chipboard industry but the economics of this mean that only short haul journies for disposal is actually the only sensible option if the environmental balance is to be acceptable.

I rather doubt that you have a licence to burn on an open fire - it is likely to be a LA agreement concerning white smoke - This does not mean that the EA will not enforce as the exemptions for fires as a waste disposal process exist only for agricultural and horticultural when carried out at the place of production/growth, which would be China. Clearance of land for construction comes under the same exemption in a number of circumstances but not all.

Composting is also a useful route but the number of Whinrow sites is limited and my personal knowledge of Derbyshire is that there are none locally.

I would look at some of the economics of adding a good furnace for timber etc to your heating system, supplementary to your existing arrangements. I have seen these be very successful in reducing fuel costs by up to 60% where there is a good supply of timber scrap.

Bob

Posted By Martin Gray
You could try a local woodworking club there are many located around the country and they are always looking for a ready source of cheap material. I get mine locally from a joinery firm and use it for wood turning, any waste goes in the wood burner in the winter.

Posted By Caro M
Try www.hadfield.co.uk
Waste wood recycler

Posted By CC
I forgot to mention we have about 4 tons a week to get rid of.
Thanks for the ideas everyone :)

Posted By Jeffrey Watt
My colleague has just installed a log burning boiler from Austria in his home.

Takes o.5 metre length logs heats a 1500 litre buffer tank cost £6K possible grant funding from Action renewables. I would imagine a scaled up version for industrial use is available for your needs and may also attract grant funding from the Energy trust(etc.

The hidden cost is the boiler man to tend it in an industrial setting.

Jeff

Posted By Robert K Lewis
Stuart

There are wood burning boilers that meet the emission requirements and which are permitted. You are correct in that it cannot simply be placed on a fire by a commercial enterprise.

Wood is capable of being recycled and thus meets the EU requirements. Only problem then is to get it accepted at a suitable recycle point- if there is one.

Bob

Posted By Merv Newman
Glynn,

I am not sure that others were complaining about your posting. It did seem ok to me. My moan was about the access platforms advert. Not your response at all.

In fact I found the information you gave to be quite interesting and to the point

Merv

Posted By devlin
When I phoned my local sawmill (US) to ask whether they gave away "scrap" (or waste wood), I was really surprised to find they have such a surplus of scrap wood they burn it. My husband and I were thrilled to find this resource as we heat our house fairly substantially with wood, and I also have a wood-fired oven I use in my bakery. It seems to me if more people knew this resource was available, they'd be only too happy to take advantage of it. I've since discovered every sawmill in our region will let folks come haul it away for free. Advertise.

Posted By Eric PD
You could try putting an advert on your local freecycle website.

very good is freecycle, you advertise that you have something to give away , someone comes and collects it , que vardis.

its here
http://www.freecycle.org...?region=United%20Kingdom

join the derbyshire section.

Hope helps.
'Be green be clean, save rubbish and cubic volume of landfill capacity'.

Posted By TBC
I think Sally hit the nail on the head when she observed that the wood has been treated. This might make some recycling options null and void. Incineration may be the only answer. It's a bit of a dodgy area - passing on treated materials.