Wood recycling extends life of area landfills

With their noses to the grindstone and their ears muffed for safety, Abco’s crews take the daily grind to a new, literal level.

With the region’s landfills filling all too fast, the time was ripe for an alternative way to get rid of wood waste from construction and development sites.

"The catalyst was landfill," said Larry Steckman, spokesman for Abco Wood Recycling, which this year is expected to grind as much as 75,000 tons of wood waste into landscaping material or fuel for wood-burning generation plants. "Fighting Creek … only has so much to spare there. It will only be 25 years before they have to haul it elsewhere."

Without recycling, that time would be cut in half, he said.

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