Wood recycling is focus of October Canadian event

The Alberta Wood Waste Recycling Association (AWWRA) is hosting a workshop focusing on scrap wood recycling and end markets on Saturday, Oct. 1, in Red Deer, Alberta.

Among the presenters at the workshop will be Toso Bozic, a bioenergy specialist with the provincial government’s Alberta Agriculture and Forestry agency.

Among the topics to be addressed, according to the AWWRA, are:

• the emerging Alberta wood recycling industry;
• landfill-based wood recycling operations;
• technology within the stationary and mobile wood grinding and transportation industry;
• renewable energy and environmental science and technologies within that sector;
• the treated wood scrap sector;
• ·opportunities in repurposing, portable saw milling and manufacturing using scrap wood.

The event is sponsored by and takes place at Trimmed-Line Tree Services Ltd. in Red Deer.

More information about registering for the workshop can be found on the association’s website.