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Metro Vancouver Zero Waste Conference 2012
(Waste) Wood:Beyond beams
Adding value through non-architectural productsTracy Casavant
Light House Sustainable Building Centre
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What Can You Do With It?
Building construction is responsible for:• 1/4 of all the world's wood harvest
• 20-30% of North American landfill space for C&D waste
WasteManagementRecycling.net
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What Can You Do With It? • Furniture
Union wood & Supply Company, Vancouver, BC
Appalachian Woods, Stuarts Draft, VA
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What Can You Do With It? • Millwork
Union wood & Supply Company
Vintage Timberworks,Temecula, CA
Canadian Heritage Timber Company, Chilliwack, BC
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What Can You Do With It? • Flooring & Stairs
Canadian Heritage Timber Company
Appalachian Woods
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What Can You Do With It? • Landscaping
Custom by Rushton, LLC, Denver, CO
Denver Highlands Sustainable Home Project
The Stow Company,Holland, MI
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• And More
What Can You Do With It?
ipad docksecōstik, Williamsport, PA
Diederick Kraaijeveld's Wood Car Sculptures
GuitarVintage Timberworks
Biodegradable CutleryAspenware
SurfboardLambrecht, Pemberton, BC
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Why Aren’t We Doing This?
• Resource Recovery Fund Board, Nova Scotia
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Why Aren’t We Doing This? • Access to wood
supply• Insufficient demand• Storage needs• Market demand
Meadway Clearance Services
Home Depot
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What Could Be Done?
• Strengthen supply chain− Deconstruction Contractors− Storage yards− Wood brokers− Customers (procurement /
specification)
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What Could Be Done?Improve supply via deconstruction
• More deconstruction planning− Goal: Create a plan for recycling & hauling services to
reduce waste and maximize salvage & recycling on construction /renovation projects
Unicyclecreative.com
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What Could Be Done?Improve supply via deconstruction
• Metro Vancouver Pilot Project - Renovation of a single-family house − 85% of all materials diverted from landfill− ~1% higher than standard disposal cost
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What Could Be Done?Foster supply, support businesses
Map of building material recyclers
Tool created for Metro Vancouver deconstruction pilot
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What Could Be Done?Improve supply, build capacity
• Community Woodwork (CW)− Developed in 2000− Sited at former Oakland Army Base, San Francisco− Funded by Materials for the Future Foundation and
US EPA− CW purchases "raw" salvaged lumber, remills it and
markets value-added reclaimed wood products− CW provides in-house, on-the-job training for low-
income individuals with little or no previous woodworking experience
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What Could Be Done?Create demand, build capacity
• Integrate reclaimed wood and value-added wood efforts• Common tools• Common small business
capacity building• Often common markets
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What Could Be Done?Physical clusters / infrastructure
Shawnigan Eco-Industrial ParkShawnigan Eco-Industrial Park
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Thank You!
Questions / Comments?
Tracy CasavantExecutive Directortracy@lhsbc.com
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