Wood recycling in Shropshire

You can recycle wood at the Councils Household Recycling Centres (HRC's) in Shropshire.

What wood can currently be recycled?

• All soft and hardwood offcuts
• Floorboards
• Skirting boards
• Pallets
• 'OSB' (orient standard board)
• Plywood
• Melamine and laminates
• Chipboard
• Doors
• Hardboard
• Treated, varnished or painted wood
• ‘MDF’ (Medium Density Fibreboard)
• Wooden boxes
• Wooden furniture
• Wooden window frames

What happens to the wood ?

It’s sent to A&A Recycling near Birmingham, a wood merchant who sorts the material into good clean wood which can be recycled and lower grade material used as biomass fuel to create 'green' energy.  Ultimately a lot of this material ends up back on the Shropshire / Wales border at the Kronospan factory in Chirk where it is used to make chipboard.   Recycled wood chip can also be used to make high quality animal bedding or sold on to the horticultural industry for mulching.
 

Why recycle wood?

We import 80% of the timber we use in the UK from abroad, so reusing and recycling wood in the UK helps our economy. Its good for the environment too because not only does recycling wood help to reduce the amount of rubbish which gets sent to landfill but its also saves energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

• A and A recycling
• Kronospan