Unpainted wood from construction and demolition Share
All unpainted and not plastic coated wood.
Preservative-treated wood, not with preservative coating, and wood with clear varnish may also be included, as well as nails, screws and smaller attached metal items.
- Cable drums
- Laminates
- Plywood
- Preservative-treated wood
- Pressure Treated Wood
- Wood parquet
What happens to the material?
The material is shredded at the SORPA receiving and sorting plant, making it possible to retrieve metals by mechanical sorting. The material is then used as a source of carbon in the manufacture of metal-grade silicon.
Such recycling of wood is the first of its kind in the world. Wood is usually used as a source of energy overseas. The use of renewable energy sources, and thereby environmentally friendly energy production here in Iceland, however, means that the wood is better utilised in this manner. This means both the reduction of coal imports and burying of organic waste.
Wood is carbon neutral and its use, therefore, reduces the carbon footprint of Elkem by 14,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. One may expect that preventing the wood from being buried in the landfill saves exhaust equivalent to more than 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The aggregate benefit corresponds to discontinuing the use of 6,800 cars. Metal-grade silicon is used, among other things, in the manufacture of electric motors in electric cars and electric equipment in computers and telephones.
code 1500417
All unpainted and not plastic coated wood.
Preservative-treated wood, not with preservative coating, and wood with clear varnish may also be included, as well as nails, screws and smaller attached metal items.
- Cable drums
- Laminates
- Plywood
- Preservative-treated wood
- Pressure Treated Wood
- Wood parquet
What happens to the material?
The material is shredded at the SORPA receiving and sorting plant, making it possible to retrieve metals by mechanical sorting. The material is then used as a source of carbon in the manufacture of metal-grade silicon.
Such recycling of wood is the first of its kind in the world. Wood is usually used as a source of energy overseas. The use of renewable energy sources, and thereby environmentally friendly energy production here in Iceland, however, means that the wood is better utilised in this manner. This means both the reduction of coal imports and burying of organic waste.
Wood is carbon neutral and its use, therefore, reduces the carbon footprint of Elkem by 14,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. One may expect that preventing the wood from being buried in the landfill saves exhaust equivalent to more than 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The aggregate benefit corresponds to discontinuing the use of 6,800 cars. Metal-grade silicon is used, among other things, in the manufacture of electric motors in electric cars and electric equipment in computers and telephones.
Unpainted wood from construction and demolition
code 1400417| Payment required | 5,40 kr./kg |
Not accepted
Clothing and reusable items
Metals and other recyclables
Garden waste
- Garden waste
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- Grass and hay
- Grass and hay
- Hay from animal husbandry
- Soil and excavation material
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- Tree branches
- Tree branches
- Tree branches - chipped
Glass and minerals
Wood
Mixed ordinary wastes and bulky waste
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- Mixed municipal waste and similar waste
- Household waste and similar wastes
- Foodstuffs in packaging
- Compressible waste from construction and demolition
- Waste from waste treatment stations
Overlay materials
Electrical equipment and hazardous waste
- Asbestos
- Light bulbs
- Medicines
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- Electrical and electronic equipment
- Refrigerators
- Small electrical equipment
- Display screens
- Large electric equipment
- Computers, printers and telephones
- Vehicle batteries
- Batteries
- Hazardous waste
