EGGER UK is the largest user of recycled timber in the UK wood panel industry.
It’s a statistic we are proud of. Recycled wood is fundamental to our MFC production, forming 40% of the board content, alongside a further 40% of by-products from the sawmills.
Our products create a market for items that would otherwise be burnt or sent to landfill.
Our recycled wood requirements exceed 350,000 tonnes annually, of which 90% is provided by EGGER Timberpak. Director Mark Hayton shares professional insight into the importance of recycling wood material, and how specifying EGGER board products can help to ensure a project is delivered with an environmental conscience at the forefront.
Why is wood recycling so important?
Wood recycling is vital to the protection of our environment.
Mark told us
"The largest off taker of recycled wood in the UK is the biomass industry, which burns waste wood for energy, releasing carbon back in to the atmosphere.
By contrast, recycling the wood locks that carbon in for the lifecycle of the product made. 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.
EGGER Timberpak provides a platform to facilitate the recycling of waste wood and make it accessible to everyone. We do this by guaranteeing that we will never turn waste wood away from any Timberpak site.”
As a result of using recycled waste wood in production, EGGER UK chipboard materials have a carbon negative status.
This includes P2 grade Eurodekor Faced Chipboard for interior furniture, and our P5 based structural flooring range for construction.
Both products are 100% recyclable, so every sheet of EGGER chipboard creates an opportunity for carbon to be locked away for eternity. Specifiers can be confident that choosing EGGER puts long term environmental protection at the forefront of their designs.
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