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The production of wood pellets has changed climate change

candice By candice 2021-10-18

Australian wood pellets industry is based on ensuring environmentally sustainable forest management. Its rapid innovation ability makes the industry a global leader and plays a strong role in building a low-carbon economy at home and around the world.

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“Wood pellets are a byproduct of sawmills. They from created from waste products produced as a by-product of the harvest and sawmill process of plantation timber,  It’s a win-win all around for forest health and for air quality.”

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Creating new opportunities

Wood pellets offer a world of possibilities, from mitigating the effects of climate change, to opening up new doors to new and improved products that reflect society’s desire for renewable and responsible choices. Driven by champions of the circular economy and motivated by the many benefits of developing australia’s bioenergy industry, tasmania’s wood pellets sector is creating new opportunities for forest health, renewable energy, and economic stability.

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What makes wood pellets solution to climate change?

First, you have to think about the fibre that goes into making pellets in Tasmania Australia. Initially, wood pellets came about as a more environmentally friendly process to old beehive burners, an unfiltered system that was used to burn all the sawdust left over from sawmilling. When the beehive burners got phased out, the sawdust had to go somewhere … and pellets were a natural outlet. The pellets are made from “waste” logs recovered from plantation wood harvesting and sawmills. It’s a win-win all around for forest health and for air quality.

Pellets are also in high demand across the globe, helping countries reach their climate change targets as they transition away from fossil fuels. If you look at coal, for example, not only does it emit carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned, it is sourced from deep in the earth where it has taken millions of years to form. In comparison, energy made from woody biomass does emit CO2 but the trees drew in that CO2 for years. Within just one year of harvesting, a new forest starts the carbon absorption cycle all over again, not to mention, the other wood products created from the harvested trees still retain and store that carbon. So while burning wood waste to make energy may sound counterintuitive to some people when we think about lowering GHGs, it’s necessary to take into account the entire carbon cycle which includes the life cycle of a forest—as a forest grows it continues to store carbon.
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