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* Arisings of wood waste that were broadly at c. '''4.5 million tonnes'''
* Arisings of wood waste that were broadly at c. '''4.5 million tonnes'''
* Processed wood waste was at c. '''4.4 million tonnes'''
* Processed wood waste was at c. '''4.4 million tonnes'''
* 2.8 million tonnes went to 'Chapter IV compliant biomass facilities' ([[Biomass EfW]])  
* 2.8 million tonnes went to 'Chapter IV compliant biomass facilities' ([[Biomass EfW]] - WikiWaste figures for 2024 suggest this figure was closer to 2.6 million tonnes)
* Small scale [[Biomass EfW]] accounted for 90,000 tonnes per year
* Small scale [[Biomass EfW]] accounted for 90,000 tonnes per year
* 920,000 tonnes went to panel board manufacture
* 920,000 tonnes went to panel board manufacture
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===Hazardous Waste Wood===
===Hazardous Waste Wood===
The [[EA]] Regulatory Position Statement (RPS 207) - 'Classifying wood waste from mixed waste wood sources'<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/classifying-waste-wood-from-mixed-waste-wood-sources-rps-207/classifying-waste-wood-from-mixed-waste-wood-sources-rps-207/ RPS 207], [[EA]] May 2020</ref> applies to all businesses who produce, transport, keep, process, control, use or dispose of [[Wood Waste|waste wood]]. The RPS was updated on the 27 May 20 and was due to expire on 31 Jan 21 but extended to the end of July 2021<ref>[https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/wra-to-challenge-agency-over-waste-wood-rps/ LetsRecycle ], Dec 2020</ref>. RPS 207 permits treated or mixed [[Wood Waste|wood waste]] (including chipped waste wood and waste fines), which could be classified as [[Hazardous Waste|hazardous]] or [[Non-Hazardous Waste|non-hazardous]] and has not been assesed and classified in line with the [[Hazardous Waste|hazardous waste]] guidance<ref>[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719394/Waste-classification-technical-guidance-WM3.pdf Guidance on the classification and assessment of waste. Technical Guidance WM3 V1.1], [[EA]] May 2018</ref> to continue to be classified as non-hazardous. However, the [[Wood Waste|waste wood]] must be destined for:
A number of [[EA]] Regulatory Position Statements [[RPS]] were issued and then withdrawn from 2020 onwards, with the most recent [[RPS]] withdrawn on the 11th September 2024<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/storing-and-treating-hazardous-waste-wood-rps-291/storing-and-treating-hazardous-waste-wood-rps-291</ref>.
*an [[Industrial Emissions Directive]] (IED) Chapter IV compliant permitted incinerator or co-incinerator
These were generally created to ensure [[Hazardous Waste|hazardous]] waste wood within mixed [[Non-Hazardous Waste|non-hazardous]] waste wood was appropriately classified, stored and managed.
*the manufacture of board
The note to the most recently withdrawn [[RPS]] states: 'The Environment Agency is satisfied that the amount of ‘amber’ items of hazardous waste wood is very low and diminishing'.


The RPS does not apply to [[Wood Waste|waste wood]] that is known and is classified as [[Hazardous Waste|hazardous]] such as:
[[Wood Waste|Waste wood]] that is known and is classified as [[Hazardous Waste|hazardous]] such as:
*railway sleepers
*railway sleepers
*telegraph poles
*telegraph poles
*wood treated with creosote
*wood treated with creosote


which must continue to be segregated and consigned as [[Hazardous Waste]].
must continue to be segregated and consigned as [[Hazardous Waste]].


==Local Authority Tonnage==
==Local Authority Tonnage==
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