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Wood Recycling
Discover reliable wood recycling from Fresh Start for businesses across the North West. We help organisations of all sizes in construction, manufacturing and retail stay compliant, cut costs and meet sustainability targets with tailored and efficient waste wood collections.
If you operate in sectors like construction, manufacturing, and retail, you’ll know the complexities of waste wood recycling.
With Fresh Start’s comprehensive waste solutions, you can efficiently manage wood waste and benefit from:
- Total compliance – Our services ensure total compliance with industry regulations, safeguarding your business
- Cost savings – By using innovative technology and encouraging reuse and recycling, we help you to lower costs for wood removal
- Streamlined operations – Wood collection times arranged around you and all your waste managed by one company keeps things simple
- Sustainability – Achieve recycling targets and contribute positively to the environment with wood recycling
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Why Choose Fresh Start Waste for Wood Recycling?
Join the many businesses already benefiting from our expertise and commitment. Choose Fresh Start for:
- Environmental Responsibility – By choosing our scrap wood collection services, you’re actively reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources and reducing landfill waste.
- Complete Solutions – We offer tailored wood recycling solutions no matter what industry you operate in, from education to events our wood disposal services cover a wide range of wood waste in small and large quantities.
- State-of-the-Art Facilities – Our advanced recycling facilities are equipped with cutting-edge technology to efficiently process and recycle wood waste, and our fleet of vehicles uses innovative systems to weigh your wood waste accurately.
- Expert Team – Our team of waste management professionals provide seamless and hassle-free services. From wood collection to recycling, we handle every step with expertise and care, and are always on hand for any queries or changes you require.
- Sustainability Impact – By partnering with Fresh Start Waste Services, you’re contributing to a significant reduction in deforestation and the demand for virgin wood. This helps preserve natural habitats and supports a healthier planet.
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Get in touch now for professional wood recycling that helps your business clear heavy timber debris efficiently. Our dependable team provides prompt collections, ensuring your off-cuts and pallets are processed sustainably.
Maintain compliance, protect the environment, and make significant cost savings with Fresh Start. Our bespoke disposal plans streamline your site operations while helping you hit green targets and boost your bottom line.
Types of Waste Wood We Collect
Grade A wood waste is clean and uncontaminated wood, usually from packaging or joinery offcuts, including:
- Pallets
- Crates and Boxes
- Timber offcuts
- Cable Drums
- Sawdust
- Uncoated Wooden Furniture)
- Construction Timber
Grade B wood waste is clean wood materials that may have been subject to some processing, including:
- Painted or stained wood
- Plywood, chipboard, MDF
- Coated furniture
- Construction timber with minor contamination (e.g. nails, screws)
- Window frames and doors
Grade C is materials that will have been treated or contaminated but are still recyclable, including:
- Heavily treated or coated timber
- Painted or varnished wood
- Wood from municipal waste streams (e.g. skip waste)
- Roofing timbers with felt, bitumen, or tar
- Treated cladding or fencing
Hazardous Wood Waste
Hazardous wood waste can pose risks to health and the environment and must be properly disposed of.
Examples of hazardous wood waste include:
- Wood treated with preservatives like creosote or chromated copper arsenate (CCA).
- Wood painted with lead-based or other toxic paints.
- Plywood and Composite wood bonded with harmful adhesives
- Wooden pallets previously used to transport hazardous materials
As a licensed carrier for the transport of hazardous waste, we will arrange a hazardous wood collection and ensure it is safely disposed of, whilst also supporting you with wood recycling for your Grade A to C wood waste.
Fresh Start is a SmartWaste Unlimited Data Provider
SmartWaste (by BRE) is the construction industry’s leading platform for tracking waste, environmental performance and sustainability data.
Fresh Start has been awarded an Unlimited Data Provider Licence for SmartWaste, meaning we can input waste data directly into the system on behalf of customers.
What this means for our customers:
- Direct, compliant data uploads
- Support for BREEAM credits and sustainability targets
- Streamlined ESG reporting
- Transparent recovery and destination reporting
How you’ll benefit:
- Reduced administration for site teams
- Compliance with industry standards
- Faster reporting
- Alignment with Tier 1 contractor procurement expectations
Combined with our PAS 402 accreditation, which demonstrates transparency in waste destinations, we are expertly positioned to offer you a strong, end-to-end compliance and sustainability proposition.
Save time and resources, ensure compliance, and meet sustainability targets with Fresh Start.
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Our Wood Recycling Process
- Storage and Collection – First we match you with the right storage containers for from small recycling bins to front end loaders and skips and ROROs. We then arrange a convenient wood collection tailored to your schedule. Whether it’s a one-time pickup or a regular service.We are renowned for our reliability, meaning you can be sure we will turn up and collect when we say we will.
- Processing – Once collected, the wood waste is transported to our recycling facility. We sort and separate your wood waste to determine what is clean enough to be reused and recycled. Any wood waste that is contaminated will be subject to safe wood disposal at a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) facility to generate green energy
- Recycling and reporting – Usable wood is sent for onward wood recycling where it is used to create products like mulch, animal bedding, and wood chips. We believe in transparency and provide detailed reports outlining the amount of wood waste that has been recycled and the positive environmental impact your business has made.
Full Service Wood Disposal and Waste Management
Sign up with Fresh Start now for a quick and easy process that takes the stress out of waste management:
- We start with a free waste audit to determine the volume of wood waste you will produce, and how often collection is required to minimise disruption.
- We’ll assign you your own Commercial Development Manager and create a tailored plan to optimise your wood waste collection and recycling.
- You receive regularly scheduled and timely collections of waste wood collections to ensure health and safety requirements are met.
- Ongoing monitoring of your usage and your account keeps pricing fair.
Green Compass PAS 402 Approved Supplier
Fresh Start is proud to have achieved the Green Compass PAS 402 Certification. This accolade is awarded to those waste management organisations who work within the parameters of international quality standards to deliver elite best practice across their operations. Achieving Green Compass PAS 402 aligns perfectly with Fresh Start’s mission of being a trusted, compliant, sustainable, and loved waste services provider, demonstrating that we are:
- Transparent about the amount and type of waste collected, treated, and diverted from landfill
- Compliant with all current waste regulations and policies
- Committed to sustainability, with stringent recycling or recovery processes, and diverting waste from landfill
- Responsible, with a proven reputation of building trust with environmentally conscious customers
- Efficient in our operations and our audit process, offering valuable insights into customer’s waste streams
- Accountable for our actions and aligned with best practices in waste handling and reporting
Our commitment to meeting industry standards and delivering construction waste management that complies with all regulations has earned us a Constructiononline Gold accreditation. Our services help businesses to save time and money, and improve their reputation.
We’re proud to be SafeContractor approved. We have consistently demonstrated our compliance with health and safety law, and passed this onto our customers so that they adhere to all construction waste disposal regulations.
Supporting the construction sector and all those who work in it is one of the reasons we have pledged support for this fantastic charity who provides 24/7 emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing support for construction workers and their loved ones. Read more
Join Us in Making a Difference
By choosing Fresh Start Waste Services for your wood recycling needs, you’re making a conscious choice to support sustainability and environmental responsibility. Join us in creating a ‘Fresh Start’ for a cleaner, greener world. Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can
tailor them to meet your specific requirements.
Together, let’s turn wood waste into a valuable resource!
