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 The
environmental impacts related to the production and
use of wood products for construction are less significant
than those of any competing building material such
as steel, concrete or plastic. The environmental profile
of wood products is further improved by the fact that
not a single speck of raw material is wasted. Sawdust,
bark, wood-chips and wood shavings are valuable both
as important raw materials for the paper industry,
and as bio-fuels.
In fact these fibre products generally account for
about 48% of the material yield from a log – with
the other 52% being used to make solid wood products.
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