"Wood wastes also called ""end of waste"" woods or used wood are generated by construction, demolition and renovation works (enterprises, craft and do-it-yourself from household), furniture, packaging, second transformation (joinery) and civil engineering (bridges, railway sleppers, poles, urban furniture, etc.). Wood waste represents an amount of around 50 Mt in Europe and probably more than 30 % of this resource is not or badly recovered. Yet, wood wastes can be a precious resource, by the substitution of fossil fuel avoiding carbon emissions in the case of energy recovery, and thanks to preservation of virgin biomass for both energy and panel production. Wood wastes valorisation enables to participate to the achievement of European Union objectives in terms of recycling or recovery, production of RES, landfilling decrease, and carbon storage (in compliance with cascade use principle). Furthermore, this valorisation leads to avoid bad practices: open burning generating harmful emissions, wild deposit or landfilling which are not sustainable solutions. On the basis of this observation and in order to make this sector more sustainable for society, the BIOREG project aims to improve wood wastes valorisation throughout Europe by acting all along the value chain. In this purpose, the project intends to facilitate dissemination of good practices and favorable environments from model regions towards regions where is existing an unused potential of wood wastes.
In order to reach this goal the project is providing a tool - BIOREG European Wood Waste platform, which is facilitating the sharing of good practices, useful tools, discussions (forums) and above all providing space for the establishing of a new community from diverse stakeholders to address problems and provide solutions together. The project aims to rise awareness of the interests of this resource (renewable energy, carbon storage, reduction landfilling) in particular with regional authorities, in order to incentive them to accompany and support this sector. On one hand, the project provides multiple tools and strategies for assessment of regions with unused potential of wood wastes and transfer of practices from model regions. And on the other, it provided a stage for wider EU level discussions focused on policy measures which can support the sector in all member states."
