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The Canadian Business of Wood Recycling

Join us at the Canadian Wood Waste Recycling Business Group, established in 2016 as a leading national organization dedicated to advancing the wood recycling industry. We equip our members, partners, stakeholders, and governmental bodies with essential resources and expert guidance to develop, expedite, and sustain wood recycling projects and businesses.

Globally, all wood waste materials—including cleaned and treated wood—can be recycled. Our focus is to provide these indispensable industry tools and foster the growth of wood recycling practices across Canada.

Core Sectors of the Canadian Wood Recycling Industry:

Reprocessing of Wood Waste:

    • Services: Grinding, shredding, hammer milling, and screening for resale.
    • Reuse Applications: Daily landfill cover, drilling waste absorbent, soil amendments, regenerative products, remediation materials, water conservation materials, and base materials for provisional roads, parks, trails, and pathways. Also used in specialized landscaping, composting, equine and animal bedding, waste-to-energy fuel, and other miscellaneous reuses.

Remanufacturing of Wood Waste:

      • Services: Portable saw-milling to process recycled wood for resale.
      • Reuse Applications: Building products such as dimensional lumber, beams, posts, planking, siding, decking, steps, wood mantels, corbels, bar and countertops, doors, windows, tables, chairs, cabinets, wood mirrors, shelves, wood flooring, wall board, roofing, fireplace mantles, and other miscellaneous reuses.

Barnwood Sector:

    • Services: Inventory and resale of reusable wood.
    • Reuse Applications: Building products, dimensional lumber, beams, joists, trusses, posts, planking, siding, ceiling panels, roof sheathing, wall boards, decking, steps, wood mantels, corbels, bar and countertops, doors, windows, tables, chairs, cabinets, wood mirrors, shelves, wood flooring, sub-flooring, fixtures, and other miscellaneous reuses.
Wood Recycling Industry

Our commitment is to deliver the tools and knowledge necessary to harness the full potential of wood waste, transforming it into valuable, market-ready products. Join us in shaping a sustainable future for the Canadian wood recycling industry.

Rethink – Recover – Reduce – Reuse

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