Wood Waste Recycling

Wood waste is the second largest category of construction and demolition (C&D) debris, and accounts for 10% of material added to landfills annually. Recycling renewable resources such as wood plays an important part in environmental protection. Wood is often used for pallets, chipboard, wood packaging, and construction lumber, etc. At the end of its life large quantities of it end up as waste wood on companies’ premises. Then particularly clean waste wood can be recycled and reused as a new product. Due to the limited options for reusing these materials, reduced wood waste can be recycled to make biomass, bedding material, mulch or compost.

All scrap lumber will be collected in roll off containers and compactors and shipped to our material recovery facility. The scrap lumber can consist of used and broken pallets and wood packaging. The scrap lumber will need to be free of large metal pieces and plastic contaminants. Our magnetic bunting system is only strong enough to pick up ferrous metal the size of nails or smaller, so it is critical that all other contaminants be removed prior to being placed into the roll off containers or compactors.

WE ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING WOOD:

Construction and demolition wood waste
Wood Pallets
Wood Packaging
Shipping Crates

WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING WOOD:

Timber and Logs
Tree Branches
Painted Wood

Our Process

The scrap wood will be processed at EcoCycle in several stages – mostly including these three steps below.

PRIMARY SHREDDING - After the wood has been sorted in accordance with the waste wood grades, A1 and A2. These grades are processed shredded. This slow-speed shredding system shreds pallets, chipboard, demolition and other particularly bulky wood parts with the aim of creating homogenous, well broken-down material to subsequently separate nails and other metal pieces from the material.
MAGNETIC SEPERATION OF FERROUS METAL - In the second step a permanent magnet fitted above the conveyor belt is used to safely extract ferromagnetic parts such as nails, scrap iron, and other scrap metals.
SECONDARY (FINE) SHREDDING GRANULATION - The pre-shredded waste wood that is free from foreign particles and metals then enters the second shredding stage. The final product should be homogenous and about 15-30 mm in size to ensure that the recycled material is of high quality.