An additional 2,400 forest industry jobs processing «usable»
wood waste left behind at logging operations into forest products;
Not exact matches
«So instead of taking corn and extracting its sugars to make ethanol, we're making use of the stalks and cobs
left over after the corn is harvested, as well as other kinds of
waste like
wood chips and rice hulls.»
They decompose our dead and all the
waste that animals and plants produce, from dung to discarded skin, feathers to hair, dead
leaves to rotten
wood.
Biochar is ground charcoal produced from
waste wood, manure or
leaves.
The Georgia Forestry Commission reports that each year loggers
leave behind some 8 million tons of
waste wood, including too - small living trees, within a 75 - mile radius of the new refinery — enough for four of Range Fuels» plants.
The project is testing three approaches:
wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus
leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced from
waste; and solar cookers.
A pile of dead
wood,
leaf litter and soil might look like garden
waste to us.
This category includes some level of forest and agriculture residues
left behind after harvest (some need to remain on the ground to maintain soil fertility); timber processing
wastes including sawdust and «black liquor;» and any unused manure, urban
wood waste, municipal organic
waste, and landfill methane.
In the Northwest, biomass electricity is primarily created by the controlled burning of
wood waste that otherwise would be dumped in landfills, burned in open air or
left to decompose.
It also matters whether the
wood used is
waste that would otherwise be
left to rot or burn, or whether it is taken from mature trees.