Environmental service cabinet

In recent years, we have been increasingly pained by agencies and governments coming up with the most peculiar mandatory inspections, reports and requirements. At one point, I figured that if one more “inspector” comes in unsolicited and leaves a mandatory recommendation (which usually means we have to invest or can write off tens of thousands and even more) I was going to kick the bucket. I hadn’t figured it out yet, or the environmental department made its appearance. According to them, no more (scrap) wood is allowed in our recently subsidised wood gasifiers that we use to warm the building. We can still separate, but no more sawing will be a problem. I was and am sick to my stomach about this. For us, the paint on the wood is precisely what we use in our products, so we don’t really have that much waste. To make a virtue of necessity, I came up with The Environmental Service Cabinet. We cut all the wood into random widths from 10 to 35 mm and to a length of 80 mm and turn them into objects. With the little waste that remains now, we are experimenting to make products from self-produced chips. We will showcase these products during DDW in October. The container we have rented by order of the environmental department to have our wood waste disposed of in a registered way will not fill up very soon. More than ever, we are selling our own waste. Surely they should be happy about that! Already thinking; we make products from scrap wood which would otherwise largely be sent straight to the incinerators, the wood is almost completely used and goes into valuable products, the residual wood goes (goes) into our high-quality stoves which meet the strictest requirements. Now, due to a possible very minimal contamination, large quantities of residual wood have to be disposed of to be burnt as yet and we have to use another supplyable fuel for heating. It needs no university education to observe that enforcing the rules in this case completely defeats the purpose. Anyway, rules are rules, and coming up with a process that requires even more thought than the 40×40 products and where we can process almost all the residual material is actually a lot of fun. I wish I had come up with it earlier!

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