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One of the biggest challenges that the furniture industries have to overcome is the management of wood waste that results from their production processes. The production process of the furniture industry generates significant amounts of wood waste that is almost always sent to a municipal landfill for disposal. Moreover, this process causes costs to the industries that result from fees which are charged for transport and for the disposal of the residues on landfills. Thus, to decrease the costs and to reduce the proportion of wood waste destined to a landfill, the management of the furniture industry must considerer wood waste as a resource, rather than a problem. For that purpose there are many processes of recycling and reutilization of wood waste, including composting. Composting is an aerobic biological decomposition process that converts biodegradable solid organic matter, as wood, into a stable humus material. The material that results from the process of composting can be, for example, used as a fertilizer that, among other benefits, can improve the characteristics of soil (porosity, ability to retain water, etc.) and can act as an agent for prevention of land degradation. In this article we study the role that the composting of wood waste materials generated from the furniture industry could have in the Portuguese context and we analyze if the process of wood waste composting could be an efficient way of treatment of the residues.
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APA: Dinis, M. A. P. (2011). Composting of Wood Waste Materials Generated from the Furniture Industry in Portugal. In F. C. Jorge (Ed.), Minimizing the Environmental Impact of the Forest Products Industries (pp. 77-81). Porto: Fernando Pessoa University Editions.
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Fernando Pessoa University Editions