Any material used in product manufacture leaves residues or waste. If these cannot be used, they will require disposal, either by incineration or in landfill sites. This is becoming more and more of a problem environmentally.
Incineration causes pollution and there is a limit to the amount of land available for landfill.
A major advantage of using wood in manufacturing is that the material and its residues can all be used in one way or another. Wood, in various forms, is used in numerous industries. In the UK, our forest products include small round wood and sawlogs. Pulp, also from the round wood, is made into paper for newspapers, magazines and paper packaging. After processing in sawmills, the sawlogs are used for solid timber products.