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...the moisture level of the wood was reduced from up to 40% to less than 5%). The fuel that was used for this furnace was bark and butt chips and waste materials from the nearby Palfab saw mill. The team also hope to install a CHP plant in the future to reduce the carbon footprint of the clean wood process. By the end of the project, the process had achieved 70% recovery of clean wood from the cont ...

Background A major part of the around 2 700 000 used tyres generated in Europe in 2002 was disposed of in landfills – just 47% were re-used, retreated or recycled (OECD). Of the remainder, about a half was landfilled while the rest was burned for energy recovery. However, the EU Landfill Directive banned the landfilling of whole tyres in 2003, and two y ...