**The necessity to reuse waste timber as feedstock for new
laminated timber products**
As the saying goes, “money doesn’t grow on trees”. However, unlike money, wood does grow on trees. If forestry resources are well-managed, then the use of timber as a structural material – as opposed to non-renewable energy-intensive materials such as concrete or steel – can reduce the embodied carbon emissions of constructing our built environment.
However, timber construction has the potential to do more. As trees grow, they photosynthesise carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in solid form as sugars in the molecular structure of new materials – a tree’s leaves, stems, bark, trunk,…
