One way of ensuring Breyer continues “Sustainably Improving Homes & Communities” is by working with brilliant organisations like Community Wood Recycling (CWR). Our Breyer Renew team in Stevenage is one of our contracts making good use of CWR’s services, saving a little on the alternative cost of using skips and supporting a charity that brings real social value to the local community.
Matt Charnley, Site Manager for Stevenage, comments on their involvement with CWR:
“CWR offers a fantastic service that is very cost effective, especially as most timber such as fence panels is now classified as hazardous waste due to the treatments and paints used on them, which makes removal of them very costly. In Stevenage, we mainly use CWR to collect old fencing and pallets. We are also using them on our decarbonisation contract for B3 Living where we’re looking to get some planters built and perhaps a bench or two.”
CWR has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and, with it, some impressive statistics. The company collects good, reusable timber from construction sites (palettes, batons or other quality wood), and then prepares the best bits for reuse elsewhere; recycles other pieces into products or cuts smaller bits into firewood. This process has meant zero waste to landfill from the 244,020 tonnes of wood they have collected to date, averting the equivalent of 120,000 tonnes of CO2 and saving 388,000 gallons of diesel compared with that required by a skip lorry for the same amount of waste.
