Primary goals

• Identify environmentally and economically sound opportunities to reuse/recycle treated timber and Engineered Wood
  Products (EWPs), to keep timber out of landfill.
• Investigate opportunities to advance the circular economy, closing the loop on avoidable waste, creating new business
  opportunities and conserving resources.

Key outcomes to date

• The launch of a Resource Map which will potentially help link solution providers with timber resources available by showing:
  1.  The type, location, volume and condition of available end-of-life resources. The map currently contains data for:
     • End-of-life vineyard posts
     • Frame and truss offcuts
     • Engineered wood by-products resources
     • End-of-life utility poles
  2. The location of solution providers, and where to find support and infrastructure, including:
     • Renewable energy & EWP solutions
     • Agricultural reuse, pyrolysis & composting/mulch
     • Licensed landfills & transfer stations
     • Solutions required
     • Circular economy councils & hubs

Progress

This project commenced in April 2023 and is set to finalise in April 2026. 

Lead researchers

• Tripti Singh
• Penelope Mitchell
• Martin Strandgard

Project partners

• Forest Wood Products Australia (FWPA)
• Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA)
• Wine Australia
• EWPAA
• FTMA
• Koppers
• Hexion
• Azelis

Sustainable Development Goals

This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• SDG 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
• SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
• SDG 13: Climate Action