--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert,
Keith talked about hardwood pallets in US land fills as six per American. This means nearly 2 billion hardwood pallets in land fills. The shear size of this made me quite upset. I know that the Americans are second best in the world after the Canadians, in wasting energy resources. But dumping 2 billion hardwood pallets in landfills takes the price. Here is at least one who see the light, Shawn Zenor from http://www.imua-tour.com , Hawaii wrote: <snip> I reuse as many of them as I can for building furniture or small projects- I'm sorry to say that you really can find some fine woods in pallets- cedar, walnut, cherry, almost anything... it's crazy. I seeing a few businesses in New Mexico that used reclaimed pallet wood for furniture too. <snip> Hakan At 03:25 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Hakan Falk wrote: > > > Only in America!!! > > Actually, I live in Canada. . . The pallets I used to cut up and > burn came >from Quebec. The hardwood baseboards we've just installed in our house came >from Chile. It's not only a shame that hardwood is misused this way, but also >that it has to be shipped (at great energy cost) across the continent or the >oceans to get here. > > In defense of the industry, however, there are some pallets that require >hardwood because of the nature of the materials shipped upon them. The >stuff I >used to collect for burning carried huge spools of aluminum that would break a >softwood pallet. It's what we do with them afterwards that's a bigger shame. > >robert luis rabello > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- End forwarded message ---
