PMID- 31109513
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190912
LR  - 20190912
IS  - 1879-2456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 87
DP  - 2019 Mar 15
TI  - Resource quality of wood waste: The importance of physical and chemical 
      impurities in wood waste for recycling.
PG  - 135-147
LID - S0956-053X(19)30076-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.005 [doi]
AB  - Recycling of post-consumer wood waste into particleboard may be hindered by the 
      presence of physical and chemical impurities in the waste stream, therefore 
      calling for increased attention on the quality of wood waste. However, wood waste 
      comprises several uses/types of wood, along with different levels of 
      contamination. This study provides the detailed sampling and characterisation of 
      wood waste according to its source, type and resource quality grade. Eight tonnes 
      of wood waste, intended for recycling and collected at three Danish recycling 
      centres, were subdivided into 34 individual material fractions and characterised 
      with respect to the presence of three classes of physical impurities 
      (misplacements, interfering materials and low-quality wood waste) as well as 
      chemical concentrations of more than hundred chemical elements and persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs). The results demonstrated that contaminant and 
      concentration levels vary significantly according to wood waste type and source, 
      thus emphasising that wood waste should not be viewed as a single material flow 
      but rather be understood and managed according to the presence of individual 
      fractions. Including only clean wood waste fractions at the three recycling 
      centres, 41-87% of the collected wood waste per weight could be recycled - the 
      rest being physical impurities. The results showed that chemical contamination 
      was significantly higher for low-quality wood waste, thus clearly indicating that 
      improvements in separate collection, sorting and handling of wood waste may 
      improve the resource quality of wood waste and potentially achieve cleaner 
      recycling practices.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Faraca, Giorgia
AU  - Faraca G
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 
      Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. Electronic address: gfar@env.dtu.dk.
FAU - Boldrin, Alessio
AU  - Boldrin A
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 
      Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Astrup, Thomas
AU  - Astrup T
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 
      Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190208
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - Recycling
MH  - *Wood
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chemical analysis
OT  - Circular economy
OT  - Heavy metals
OT  - POPs
OT  - Sampling
OT  - Waste collection
EDAT- 2019/05/22 06:00
MHDA- 2019/09/13 06:00
CRDT- 2019/05/22 06:00
PHST- 2018/10/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/18 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/02/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/05/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/05/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/09/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0956-053X(19)30076-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2019 Mar 15;87:135-147. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.02.005. Epub 2019 
      Feb 8.