Life Cycle Assessment of Wood Waste

Wood waste can be decreased without significantly impacting the world's forests by enhancing the effectiveness of primary wood consumption and utilising raw wood supplies produced by sustainable forest administration. Wood waste can be utilised to create a wide range of goods, including engineered wood products, energy production (heat and electricity), mulch, and animal bedding. These low-cost, underutilised feedstocks have the potential to boost the added value of wood waste. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for examining the environmental impact of materials, products, and services, and it is intended to aid in the development of sustainable decisions. This chapter discusses important difficulties concerning the life cycle assessment (LCA) of wood waste products. We looked at the process by which LCA evaluates the whole environmental effects of wood output, whether as input or output, over the course of a product’s life, from raw material to end-of-life disposal or rebirth as a new product.