In recent years, due to the progressive environmental degradation and increase of environmental awareness, the sustainability of production systems in wood processing, the wood industry, and wood waste management is a crucial issue for European industry and society. Consequently, the problem of generating wood-like waste and the associated risks has become an increasingly noticeable challenge for science. Although various methods of wood waste management have been developed, managing of post-industrial and post-consumer waste remains one of the most vital and challenging problems. The lack of an effective wood waste management system, particularly for post-consumer waste, leads to the implementation of low-quality solutions such as incineration or landfilling of valuable products that could be recycled and re-used. According to the EU Directive 2018/851, reuse and recycling of wastes are more preferred than energy recovery or landfilling. It is important to note that energy recovery and landfilling of waste are rather forms of material disposal and not recycling methods. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for innovative technologies that enable the efficient processing of wooden waste into valuable products. In this work we developed a new type of polyurethane wood-composite (PU-WC) by the utilization of large amount of wood wastes with properties comparable to MDF boards during simple production process.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2023
