WOODRUB - Utilisation of recovered wood
and rubber for alternative composite products
LIFE09 ENV/ES/000454
Project description Environmental issues Beneficiaries Administrative data R e a d m o r e Contact details:
Project Manager: Manuel BELANCHE
Tel: +34 96 136 60 70
Fax: +34 961 366185
Email: mbelan@aidima.es
Project description:
Background
The project is targeting the reuse of waste wood and rubber tyre products. (1)
The recycling of waste wood products is increasing. This is a positive
development as it increases the total volume of CO2 stored as wood-based
products, broadening the life-cycle of the fixed carbon in the newly recycled
products. However, such wood wastes currently contain physical and chemical
contaminants such as metals, stones, glues, paints and melamines. (2)
Concerning rubber products, an estimated 1.5 billion tyres are discarded every
year worldwide, including 250 million in Europe. The management of used tyres
is not yet fully resolved. There are a number of options available, but to date,
these have not proven to be sufficiently cost effective to drive the market for
recovery. The disposal and incineration of tyres releases potentially harmful
compounds into the environment, e.g. polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs),
benzene and phenol, which have carcinogenic properties. Although some local
programmes for recycling have been started around Europe, few are targeted at a
national or even a regional level. Objectives
The main aim of the ‘WOODRUB’ project is to develop, test and demonstrate
innovative, environmentally-friendly products made from recycled wood and
rubber from used tyres. Construction materials will be developed from these
rubber from used tyres. Construction materials will be developed from these
innovative products and demonstrated to different stakeholder groups. The
project will provide managers of wood and rubber waste with a new end-of-life
route for their products, and offer public and private construction firms a more
environmentally-friendly product option. Moreover, the planned products will
operate as carbon sinks –increasing the carbon storage in buildings using the
products, and replacing other less eco-friendly building materials. The recovered
wood category to be used will be waste from household (furniture, doors,
windows, floors, etc.). This material is chemically contaminated by glues,
lacquers, paints and coatings. After collection, the waste wood material will be
processed into chips without any prior biological, thermal or chemical treatment.
This is an innovative approach since the removal of all these chemicals is difficult
and costly. Recovered rubber tyres (in the form of particles free from other
materials such as wires, ropes and synthetic fibres) will be used with recovered
wood chips or sawn timber for the production by thermal processes of
innovative composite products. The development of these new products will be
first carried out on laboratory scale, to be scaled-up in order to develop and
desi g n the wood / ru b b er co m p o s i t e p r o t o t y p e s . An e n v i r o n m e n t a l s t u d y a n d a
lifecycle assessment (LCA) will be carried out on the developed products: The
products made from recycled wood and/ or rubber will be compared with other
conventional building materials and with other end-of-life routes of waste wood
and waste rubb er. Expected results: The projects plans to focus development work on the following
wood/ rubber products: 1. DIY building products such as construction panels,
insulating panels and bricks. 2. Construction industry products e.g. panels,
safety side barriers for highways and mixed bitumen (asphalt) products. The main expected outputs are: Analyses of quantities and quality of recovered wood and rubber in Europe;
Strengthened links among European waste wood and rubber suppliers/users;
Processing techniques for recovered wood and waste rubber will be
developed;
Operations for recovered wood-rubber/tyre-bonding systems will be
defined and established;
Production processes will be scaled-up and prototype guidelines for
manufacturing defined; and
LCA results, cost values and eco-efficiency rates will be calculated. Results
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Environmental issues addressed:
Themes
Waste - End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV's) and tyres
Waste - Waste use
Keywords
waste use‚ building material‚ tyre‚ wood‚ alternative material Natura 2000 sites
Not applicable
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Beneficiaries:
Coordinator
Type of organisation
Description
Partners
Asociación de Investigación yDesarrollo en la
Industria del Mueble yAfines
Professional organisation
AIDIMA, the wood, furniture and packaging
technology institute, is a non-profit making
organisation, founded in 1984, which is active
throughout Spain. Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece
Brunel University, United Kingdom Consorzio
del Mobile S.P.A., Italy Acciona Infraestructuras
S.A., Spain SONAE Industria SGPS SA, Portugal
Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región
Europea, Spain Keridis Christoforos S.A.,
Greece NATURA S.R.L., Italy Enjily International
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Administrative data:
Project reference
Duration
Total budget
EU contribution
Project location
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LIFE09 ENV/ES/000454
01-SEP-2010 to 31-MAR -2014
1,838,968.00 €
918,192.00 €
Comunidad Valenciana(España)
Read more:
Leaflet
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Leaflet
Leaflet
Project web site
Publication: After-LIFE
Communication Plan
Publication: Layman report
Title: "Utilisation of recovered wood and rubber
for alternative composite products =
Utilización de madera reciclada y caucho
recuperado para el desarollo de nuevos
composites" (1,10 MB) Year: 2012 No of
pages: 2 Title: "Utilisation of recovered wood and rubber
for alternative composite products =
Verwertung von Altholz und Altgummi für
alternative Verbundwerkstoffe" (1.134 KB)
Year: 2012 No of pages: 2 Title: "Utilisation of recovered wood and rubber
for alternative composite products = Utilizzo
di legno e gomma riciclata per lo sviluppo di
prodotti composti alternativi" (1,10 MB)
Year: 2012 No of pages: 2 Title: Project leaflet (1,30 MB) Year: 2012 No of
pages: 2 Project's website
Title: After-LIFE Communication Plan
Year: 2014 No of pages: 18 Title: Layman report Year: 2014 Top
Project description Environmental issues Beneficiaries Administrative data R e a d m o r e