Recycling

Choosing materials manufactured with recycled content, and materials that are recyclable at end of life, both contribute to carbon reduction when using wood based products.

EGGER is the largest user of recycled timber in the UK wood panel industry. We are committed to creating a valuable product from waste wood that would otherwise be sent to landfill or burnt for biomass, releasing its stored carbon into the atmosphere.

The 350,000 tonnes of recycled wood we source annually via EGGER Timberpak provide 40% of the core board structure of UK produced Eurodekor Faced Chipboard.

A further 40% comes from the by-product of commercial sawmill operations, in the narrow tree trunk tops and outer edges that they cannot process. This material goes into chipboard production in the form of hackchips and sawdust. This further prevents waste wood material from biomass.

Timberpak Director Mark Hayton tells us how specifying EGGER board products can help to ensure a project is delivered with an environmental conscious at the forefront.

The largest off taker of recycled wood in the UK is the biomass industry, which burns wastewood for energy, releasing carbon back into the atmosphere. Recycling the wood locks that carbon in for the lifetime of the product made.”

With Eurodekor Faced Chipboard, the finished material is 100% recyclable, forming part of EGGER’s Closed Loop Production Cycle. And while the material is designed to last a lifetime, trends move fast. When furniture is removed, it can be re-recycled and used in further production.

Mark adds:

With re-recycling down the line, carbon can be locked away for a lifetime. We all have a responsibility to ensure that all wood material that can be recycled, is recycled. It can never be seen as acceptable to spend 45 years growing a tree only to burn it in 45 seconds.”

» See our Closed Loop Production Cycle bring this process to life at www.egger.com/sustainability