Reply #8: Our local landfill banned wood waste a year ago.

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I just checked their website to see what is done with it and the primary usage is as boiler fuel. I know when I took scrap wood up there two weeks ago and put them in the bins, there was a hell of a lot of pressure treated, stained, and painted lumber in there. I can imagine the chemical soup being put into the atmosphere from burning that wood. Sure the wood would break down in the landfill and release a similar amount of greenhouse gas, but the other chemicals sent into the atmosphere (arsenic in pressure treated wood, for instance) doesn't justify using this as a fuel source.