Wood

Wood has long been one of the major items to be found in skips. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Some local council’s accept wood for turning into wood chips; and sometimes that might be the best thing to do with a mangled piece of wood. In some instances there may also be the possibility of burning the wood to provide heating. However, a good deal of wood or lumber lying around in skips or turned into woodchips would still be perfectly usable. Further more, wood can be expensive to purchase new. Besides which some rarer types of wood, such as teak can be difficult and expensive to obtain from sustainable sources.

Categories

Rare Or hard to obtain woods - (if you know what you’ve got) – Heritage organisations, may be interested in acquiring spare wood as they can utilise it in their restoration work. For example Heritage Railways trying to restore historic railway carriages could make use of used but still usable wood.

Useable But not necessarily Rare Wood – Community wood recycling projects are now coming into being

Seems Like Junk – Old Railway Sleepers, and various other apparently junk wood, is frequently used by people building allotments, and other odd little projects. It may be worth passing such wood on to a wood recycling or reuse project. Although another option is Freecycle.

Directory

Against The Grain (Llandudno): Tel 01492 596783

Birmingham Timber Recycling Exchange (TRE): Tel 0121 328 7333

The Bluebell Railway, Carriage and Wagon Department: http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/carwag.html

Branching Out (Cambridgeshire): Tel 01353 863221

Brighton And Hove Wood Recycling Project: Tel 01273 570500

Bristol Wood Recycling Project: Tel 0117 972 3219

Bromley Community Wood Recycling Project: Tel 020 8659 9992

Freegle: http://www.ilovefreegle.org/

Freecycle: http://uk.freecycle.org/

Gumtree: http://www.gumtree.com/

Hastings And Bexhill Wood Recycling Project: Tel 01424 715566

Leaside Wood Recycling Project (London): Tel 020 7515 5444

National Community Wood Recycling Project: Tel 01273 495060

Otter Rotters Timber Recycling Ltd (Exeter): Tel 01392 466387

Oxford Wood Recycling: Tel 01235 861228

Recyle4Free: clothahump@recycle4free.com

Reseiclo (Gwent): Tel 01633 856622

Somerset Wood Recycling: Tel 01934 642294

Squirrels: Tel 020 8641 1881

TP Wood Recycling (Rotherham): Tel 0114 254 0583

TRIM – Timber Recycling In Manchester: Tel 0161 2234400

Wiltshire Wood Recycling Project: Tel: 01249 783499

Wood@Aldingbourne (Chichester): Tel 01243 546038

Woodchuckers (York): Tel 01904 607808

The Woodhouse (Preston, Lancashire): Tel 01772 259700

Woodstock Timber Recycling Project (Newcastle Upon Tyne): Tel 01670 854422

The Woodworks (Edinburgh): Tel 0845 8382440

Yorkshire Wood Recycling Project – Aalto Ltd: Tel 01977 611911

External Links

Article in The Observer: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2012279,00.html

See Also

Furniture

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