Wood is one of the most versatile and precious natural resources in the world, and that includes wood waste. With an estimated 4.5 million tonnes of wood waste being created within the UK each year, responsible waste disposal and recycling is vital to the environment, limiting the number of trees that need to be cut down to keep up with demand.
Our local wood collection service means there’s always wood recycling near you, so you won’t need to load up a van and take it to a waste facility yourself. All the waste wood we collect is sent for recycling and converted into animal bedding, chipboard or renewable energy.
Locations served
Amesbury
Andover
Bath
Bristol
Cirencester
Chippenham
Devizes
Faringdon
Frome
Malmesbury
Marlborough
Newbury
Portishead
Salisbury
Shaftesbury
Swindon
Trowbridge
Tidworth
Warminster
Weston-Super-Mare
Yate
What do we classify as wood waste?
It’s vital that we make sure the right bins are used for the right types of waste so that we can recover and recycle as much as possible. What we call wood waste, you may also know as MDF, packaging wood, clean wood, flat-pack furniture or grade A. B and C wood waste. These types of wood and wood products can go in our wood waste collections:
Solid wood and softwood
Hardwood
Packaging wood
Kitchen off-cuts
Flat-pack furniture
Medium-density fibreboard (MDF)
Plywood
Pallets
Chipboard
Domestic furniture
Government policy change
From the 1st September 2023 government policy relating to wood waste will change for processing wood. This change now means that some wood may be classed as hazardous and will need to be separated and tested at source by waste providers. This information will then need to be provided to Hills Waste Solutions prior to arranging for collection.
The following items are likely to be affected by the changes:
Barge boards, fascia’s and soffits
External joinery (wooden windows & Conservatories)
External Doors
Roof Timbers
Tiling and Cladding Battens
Timber Frames/Joists
Items such as telegraph poles, railway sleepers, treated woods are already considered as hazardous. For help and further information contact our Customer Support Team on 0808 145 4533
Wood waste is the final unwanted or discarded products from activities such as construction, demolition, wood packaging and from urban household waste recycling centres.
The following types of waste wood are not acceptable for recycling/recovery; telegraph poles, railway sleepers, cooling towers and some fencing. These products are coated with copper/chrome/arsenic (CCA) preservation treatments and creosote and are regulated as hazardous waste.
Wood waste is collected from site in skip or hook containers and taken to our Lower Compton facility. Upon arrival, the wood is classified by grade and tipped on to the pad. On site operatives will then process the material via a shredder till it meets the required specification. This is then bulked on site and sent for additional processing.
Wood is an incredibly versatile material and can be recycled into several things, depending on type and quality. The most common ways of recycling wood are through reuse for furniture or DIY; or reducing to woodchip for use in chipboard, landscaping and animal bedding; or to burn for low carbon fuel.
Download our Waste Classification Guide
We’re here to make your life easy, so why not download our full Waste Classification Guide including detailed lists of what can and can’t be accepted for all our waste services.
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