Possibilities of recovering post-consumer waste wood from municipal waste in Wielkopolska

Legal regulations, economic factors and the need to protect forests against excessive exploitation encourage the entrepreneurs who use wood to look for its alternative sources. Among them there are almost fully utilized wooden by-products and wood waste wood, which constitute one of the elements of municipal waste. In the article the sources of post-consumer waste wood have been determined. Detailed analysis embraced one of them, namely – municipal waste generated within the territory of Wielkopolska Voivodeship. Their morphological composition has been given and the share of individual fractions in the total volume of municipal waste has been pointed out. The amount of waste wood possible to recover by 2023 was determined as the sum of those fractions of municipal waste, which contain wooden elements or wood-based elements: fraction wood and fraction bulky waste. Wooden packaging has been also included.