Dear Forum,
We are working on a project where the customer wants to divert wood donating it to people to use in their home furnaces (for cooking and heating). Can we document this as waste diversion?
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Kathryn West
LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Green Globes ProfessionalJLL
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March 14, 2014 - 2:24 pm
You may be able to argue this especially if the wood is clean with no paint on it. But I think the chance of it being approved is small. All the publicly available literature I can find says that wood can only be counted as diverted if it is "Wood Derived Fuel" used at an "industrial plant." Burning wood generates a lot of particulates and home furnaces aren't likely to capture and scrub a lot of that before it's emitted to the neighborhood air. See ID #2629