As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing
scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.
Not exact matches
The Gili Eco Trust are taking action on the sheer volume of food
waste mixed in with every other
scrap material such as plastic,
wood and metal taken to the dump every day.
Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the
wood in pellets is from hardwood trees, not
scrap and
waste.
The
waste wood, tree branches and other
scraps are gathered together from factories and from farms to a biomass power plant.
The commercial building industry can greatly reduce
waste going to landfills and incinerators by targeting two large categories: paper (office paper, paperboard, cardboard) and organics (yard trimmings, food
scraps, and
wood).
Similar to charcoal, the process involves slowly burning
scrap wood and
waste materials from agriculture to produce a carbon rich by - product that can be used as a fertiliser.
Glulam technology also uses
scraps that are not big enough to use for other purposes, significantly reducing
waste, and in this case, using up a serious amount of pine beetle damaged
wood.
Plenty of people are working on turning
wood waste into ethanol, but Enerkem is doing
wood chips, yard
waste, and building
scraps