WRA warns over hazardous waste wood costs

摘要

The Wood Recyclers’Association(WRA)is seeking waste wood samples from the demolition of buildings built before 2007 in a bid to avert a’potential crisis’that could cost the demolition sector more than ￡100 million(€117 million)per year.The WRA is appealing to demolition firms to take part in the programme,which is supported by the National Federation of Demolition Contractors(NFDC)to identify which demolition waste wood items are hazardous.Without these tests,the WRA claims the Environment Agency will assume all demolition waste wood from this period is hazardous.As a result,demolition contractors will have to provide evidence that the wood waste is non-hazardous,or pay additional fees to send the material for energy recovery in specialist incinerators.