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Wood and Wood Alternatives Partners
 These LinkUp businesses specialize in manufacturing products from urban wood and wood alternatives.
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 Brandrud Furniture
Recycled products: furniture for offices, health care facilities and educational establishments
This company, based in Auburn, Washington, has reduced the amount of hardwood used in the interior framing of its chairs and sofas by substituting wheatboard, a renewable agricultural byproduct made from the straw portion of the wheat stalk. The company also uses Dakota Burl®, made from sunflower seed shells, in its shelving and tabletops.
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Forest Concepts, LLC
Recycled product: WoodStraw™ erosion control material
This company, based in Federal Way, Washington, has developed an all-wood erosion control material to take the place of agricultural straw. The result is WoodStraw™ spreadable wood strands, a new product that can outperform agricultural straw and is a readily available material in the forest setting. WoodStraw™ is currently undergoing rigorous testing by the U.S. Forest Service for use on federal lands. The product is made from plywood veneer scrap; Forest Concepts is interested in eventually making WoodStraw™ from wood waste generated during construction projects.
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 Rainier Wood Recyclers
Recycled product: urban wood waste, landclearing debris, brush
Rainier Wood Recyclers processes nearly 200,000 tons of green wood waste each year, and about 70,000 tons of urban wood waste, such as pallets, crates, and construction and manufacturing scrap. The company operates three wood recycling yards in Western Washington, although much of its work takes place at on sites where wood waste material is generated and collected. Rainier Wood Recyclers makes about 12 different products from the recycled wood, including playground base, landscape mulch, and boiler fuel.
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Recovery 1, Inc.
Materials processed: construction, demolition and land-clearing debris
 This Tacoma, Washington, construction, demolition and land-clearing debris recycling facility is one of the few in the country that can manage mixed debris shipments. In its facility at the Port of Tacoma, Recovery 1 recycles more than 99 percent of incoming debris materials into marketable products, making its operation a more affordable alternative to trucking that same "waste" to the landfill.
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 Urban Hardwoods
Recycled products: furniture and specialty woods
This Seattle, Washington, company, formerly JN Woodworking, is owned and operated by master furniture craftsman Jim Newsom. As a specialty wood-milling business, Urban Hardwoods makes furniture and provides wood to other furniture makers, hobbyists, and cabinetmakers. To do so, Newsom collects and mills urban hardwood trees, such as maple, chestnut, oak and beech that are cut down by Puget Sound-area tree service companies, utility crews and building contractors. He removes these felled trees at no cost to the tree service or utility company and recycles the wood into quality products with high resale value.
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