Outreach and Extension Waste Material or Raw Material Wood waste generated during the construction process has value in the marketplace. That depends on several factors easily determined with a small investment of time and effort. The purpose of this web-page is to provide information that entrepreneurs can use to investigate strategies for making money from waste wood generated by the construction industry. Construction waste comes from waste materials generated during the construction, alteration, or repair of structures.
Demolition waste comes from buildings and other structures that are torn down.
Lumber manufacturing facilities generate large amounts of wood residues as a by-product of processing round logs into square and rectangular shaped lumber products. This involves taking construction waste material and doing something to it that gives it value in the marketplace. An example is a firm that collects clean solid wood scraps from construction sites, chips the wood into appropriate sized pieces and dyes them, to make a uniform and attractive mulch for landscaping applications. Another strategy is to identify waste materials in the construction industry that serve as raw material inputs in a different industry. MDF plants use wood chips as the primary raw material input for their product.