Benefits of Avoiding Wood Waste
In Canada, the CO2 Neutral Alliance has created a website with resources for regulators and municipalities, developers and contractors, business owners and operators, and individuals and households. Benefits for municipalities include:
- Reducing disposal costs where waste collection, hauling or disposal is supported by the tax base
- Establishing additional revenue streams
- Making existing landfills last longer
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the decomposition of wood waste into methane from landfills
- Stimulating local economies with new industries and employment
Improving the local environment and overall sustainability of your community For every three square feet of deconstruction, enough lumber can be salvaged to build one square foot of new construction. At this rate, if deconstruction replaced residential demolition, the United States could generate enough recovered wood to construct 120,000 new affordable homes each year. The deconstruction of a typical 2,000-square-foot (190 m2) wood frame home can yield 6,000 board feet of reusable lumber. Every year the United States buries about 33 million tons of wood-related construction and demolition debris in landfills. As anaerobic microorganisms decompose this wood, it will release about five million tons of carbon equivalent in the form of methane gas.
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