You can recycle wood at the five main Household Recycling Centres (HRC's) in Shropshire:

• Shrewsbury HRC (Battlefield Enterprise Park)
• Oswestry HRC (Mile Oak Industrial Estate)
• Whitchurch HRC (Waymills Civic Park)
• Craven Arms HRC (off Long Lane)
• Bridgnorth HRC (Stanley Lane)

What wood can currently be recycled?

• All soft and hardwood offcuts
• Floorboards
• Skirting boards
• Pallets
• 'OSB' (orient standard board)
• Plywood
• Melamine and laminates
• Chipboard
• Doors
• Hardboard
• Treated, varnished or painted wood
• ‘MDF’ (Medium Density Fibreboard)
• Wooden boxes
• Wooden furniture
• Wooden window frames

What happens to the wood we collect?

It’s sent to Hadfields, a wood merchant who sorts the material into good clean wood which can be recycled back into chipboard and the lower grade material is used as biomass fuel to create 'green' energy.

Why recycle wood?

We import 80% of the timber we use in the UK from abroad, so reusing and recycling wood in the UK helps our economy. Its good for the environment too because not only does recycling wood help to reduce the amount of rubbish which gets sent to landfill but its also saves energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

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