Wood is an essential global resource. Used for construction, fuel, paper, furniture, textiles and more, it is renewable, versatile, strong and biodegradable. These benefits lead to the ever-growing ...

Writing in Nature, Yang et al. 1 describe a remarkable strategy for making a wood adhesive from lignin — the extraordinary polymer that strengthens and binds together plant cells. Lignin waste streams ...

Located near Bakersfield, Calif., the facility aims to remove carbon from the air by diverting wood waste from open-air burn and landfills and converting it into carbon-negative hydrogen for ...

He had driven by it hundreds of times before. But on this particular day, the wood waste recycling facility that Scott Bruce passed every Monday morning from his Baton Rouge, LA, home to start another ...

California contractors will have an easier time disposing of treated wood waste (TWW) now that AB 332 was unanimously approved by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug.

Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough. Researchers have developed a streamlined and efficient ...

Piles and piles of wood waste, some more than 30 feet tall, are stacked near the Mississippi River in St. Paul. The heaps are growing and they’re not the only ones in the metro, and a struggle is on ...

When presenting the case for wood energy use under the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan, the Biomass Power Association created a simple diagram to answer a complicated question: When ...

For years, contractors and trash haulers in California have been accepting discarded fence posts, backyard deck planks and other chemically treated wood debris without giving it much thought. That all ...