Option 3 — Wood Waste Recycling

Which wood disposal option is best for your utility?

Our expert team will help you identify a more environmentally friendly disposal option that is also cost efficient.

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Option 3 — Wood Waste Recycling

Old poles can be recycled and used as both agricultural and/or building materials. Fence posts, retaining walls, and pole barns are a few of the most common applications. This disposal method requires utility poles be a length of eight feet or longer. So if your utility stockpiles whole poles, this could be a valid solution. Depending on the type of the wood waste being disposed of—and the toxicity of the waste stream—this is perhaps the most environmentally responsible wood disposal method, as there are no emissions or environmental concerns.

DISPOSAL OPTION COMPARISON CHART

Wood Waste Recycling: Quick Breakdown

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Customer CASE STUDY:

Incineration (Waste-to-Energy)

DISCOVER
PLATTSBURGH
New York

Plattsburgh was looking for a more effective, environmentally friendly waste removal program. Learn how we helped the city convert their stockpiling old poles---that had collected for several years---into energy through incineration.

Customer CASE STUDY:

BIOMASS FUEL

PEPCO
An Exelon® Company

Koppers Recovery has established an effective, ongoing recovery solution for Pepco in which we pick up used utility poles for biomass incineration. Having a regular program in place with Koppers Recovery means they have a more efficient, cost-effective solution.

Customer CASE STUDY:

RECYCLING WOOD WASTE

LAMBERTS
Cable Splicing Company,
LLC

Like many contractors that provide services to utilities, Lambert is a company that had been stockpiling wood waste, in this case at three different North Carolina locations. Koppers Recovery successfully removed all wood waste for subsequent processing through a recycling program.

 

Customer CASE STUDY:

Waste-to-Energy

NATIONAL GRID
New Poles + Disposal = Cost
Effective Logistics

National Grid has been a new pole customer of Koppers Utility and Industrial Products  for several years. We recently implemented a turnkey program for them that consisted of delivery of new poles and backhauling used poles for waste to energy incineration.