Monday, November 19, 2012

Recycling the Green Waste

Whenever you hire a tree surgeon/arborist or carry out the job of trimming and shaping your trees and hedges. These jobs do help make your garden or yard looking better and neater but at the same time, left behind with you is a huge pile of twigs, branches, leaves in other words a pile of green waste. This is where a tree surgeon will be of most help. They also help in recycling this green waste other than for landfills. The recycling of such pile of green waste is carried out efficiently in different ways. Usually the wood wastes from the trees are categorized into wood-chip, timber, and non-chippable waste. The non-chippable waste consists of trimmings from hedges, minor pruning, and contaminated collection from the ground.

The enormous bulk of chippable waste by help of wood-chippers or chippers is converted in a huge quantity of wood chip. However, you will find that there are many types of chippers. These chippers are mounted on trailers so that they help in turning the chippable green waste into wood chip at the site itself and then is carried away in their tow trucks. The other green wastes that cannot be turned into wood chip are loaded in their trucks to be carried away. At times you as a client may like to keep the waste for yourself perhaps for making mulch or using the timber for firewood. Some other clients having an artistic bend of mind may retain the waste for carving or other such purpose. There are others, who may think of using the timber for planking purpose. Many times the customers also ask for retaining the wood chips for using it for making a pathway, for mulch, or use is for suppressing weed growth.

Apart from the above-mentioned uses, the arborists after getting the waste from the client's site have lined up many ways of using them after stockpiling them in their yard. The first use of the wood chip so obtained is – selling a part of it to people to use for using as paths in gardens. Secondly, the remaining wood chip is stored for many months and allowing it to compost and sold as mulch, once it is ready. Mulch helps in retaining the moisture in the ground in places where there is usually less rain and dry atmosphere. Usually if you want to lay wood chip as mulch you will require no less than 5 centimeter, which is a good depth to lay down the wood-chip as mulch. Wood-chip is sold in measure of cubic meter. One cubic meter of wood-chip can give you a mulch depth of 5 centimeter for an area of 20 square meters. By means of this calculation, you can make an estimation of how much wood chip you will need to mulch for use in the area.

The left over wood chip is sold to power stations that use biomass fuel to run the station. The non chippable waste and shredded waste is also useful as biomass fuel. Therefore, hedge trimming that are not suitable for chipping in the wood chipper along with huge quantity of raked material are handled by Green Waste Management Services that handles such wastes and process it for use as Biomass fuel.
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