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Waste reduction, recycling and increased material efficiency are key objectives in complex industrial ecology. The wood processing industry also aims at a more intensive resource recovery and usable residual volumes. Important volumes of wood processing residue potentials can be found at the EU level. However, to date no reliable calculation approach has been established. To fill the information gap, this study presents an approach for calculating the supply of wood processing residues. The methodological approach follows the concept of a material flow analysis. We quantify the material flows based on product-specific conversion factors and the coefficients of material efficiency. This paper intends to develop a calculation approach based on existing statistical data from official classifications such as Prodcom. We perform the calculation approach on standardised wood packaging products at the European level. The calculated supply of wood processing residues the European Union in 2018 was 29.7 million m 3 f with a total material input of about 70.8 million m 3 f and a production volume of 40.8 million m 3 f. A maximum volume of 29.6 million m 3 f sawnwood is used for the productio

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Author

Ulrike Saal; Susanne Iost; Holger Weimar

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)