Hot Topic Archives: Hazelmere Timber Recycling Centre
The Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) has recently announced the opening of the facility for recycling industrial timber waste based in Hazelmere.
The Hazelmere Timber Recycling Centre follows the 'Towards Zero Waste' business ojectives by recovering and processing industrial timber waste so it can be diverted from landfill and recycled as reusable woodchip. Uncontaminated industrial timber waste is sorted and shredded into woodchip. The shredding process removes steel contaminants (nails, nuts, bolts). The recycled woodchip is then used as a raw material for identified end markets including particleboard manufacture of compost and animal bedding, and as biofilter medium.
Currently, untreated pale or pine timbers in the form of pallets, packing materials, wooden crates, low pressure laminated particleboard offcuts (without plastic edging) and cable drums are being accepted for recycling at the centre.
The EMRC has committed to diverting all grade of timber waste from landfill for reuse, and it is expected that untreated hardwood will be accepted within the next three months.
Information with respect to grades of timber waste currently accepted at Hazelmere along with the disposal fees is available on http://www.rgang.org.au or view the brochure
