Wood recycling
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What wood can currently be recycled?
There are skips or bays for the following at Shropshire's household recycling centres
- all soft and hardwood offcuts
- floorboards
- pallets
- Chipboard
- treated, varnished or painted wood
- ‘MDF’ (medium density fibreboard)
- wooden boxes
What wood can’t be recycled?
- railway sleepers
- window frames with glass
What happens to the wood we collect?
It’s sent to a 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.
Did you know?
- 80 per cent of the timber used in the UK is imported.
- Wood is ideal for reuse – if you don’t want it a neighbour might.