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>Then all the shaving, sanding, cutting, drilling, etc. and surprisingly small part of the growing tree ends up as a part of a building. It doesn't just get to
by itsoktocry 3y ago
>Then all the shaving, sanding, cutting, drilling, etc. and surprisingly small part of the growing tree ends up as a part of a building.
It doesn't just get tossed in the trash, though. They do all kinds of things with the off-cut.
Some of it will end up getting burned, but even in that case it's displacing other forms of heat source, albeit less efficiently.
- dboreham 3y agoHmm. I live in a forest. The people who come get logs for lumber mills only take the logs. All the branches, pine needles etc. are burned on-site. They'd never pay to haul that stuff (which is a massive amount of material) off site.
- aziaziazi 3y agoWhy burned? In most tree plantations I visited branches were placed in piles for insects, small animals and shrooms to enjoy it. It then degrades over a year or two into some soup of carbon, nitrogen and potassium I guess.