Wood Recycling
A simple, effective way to free up space on your premises and recycle your wood responsibly.
Wood Recycling that Clears Up Space
Bulky wood waste is a familiar sight in many businesses. Piles of pallets in the yard, off-cuts from production, redundant furniture stacked in corners. It doesn’t take long before your valuable space is taken up. Beyond the clutter, costs rise, health & safety risks grow and productivity often suffers.
At Printwaste, we specialise in helping our customers transform that challenge into an opportunity, using 40+ years of industry experience. By recycling your waste wood responsibly, we free up space on your site, cut your disposal costs and provide a sustainable outlet for your commercial wood waste.
Types of wood we collect
From pallets to old furniture, we handle all kinds of commercial wood waste with care and expertise. Whether it’s softwood, hardwood, or mixed materials, we ensure your waste is collected efficiently and recycled responsibly. Our tailored wood recycling services help you reclaim valuable space, reduce costs, and support your business’s sustainability goals.
- Solid softwood & hardwood
- Wooden Pallets
- Untreated wooden products
- Wooden packaging
- Timber offcuts
- Sterling Wood
- Fencing products
- Flatpack furniture
From pallets to pick-up: Keep your yard clear, safe and streamlined
Managing wood waste efficiently starts with having the right setup on site. Our team will work with you to identify where containers are needed most — whether that’s at production points, storage areas or the yard. By keeping materials contained and collections organised, we help maintain a safer, tidier site and make sure your wood waste is recycled responsibly and sustainably.
Loose or Wheeled Bins (240L–1100L)
Perfect for small sites or offices producing small to medium volumes of wood waste like packaging off-cuts or broken crates. Easy to manoeuvre and store.
Cages
Lockable, robust metal containers for regular moderate wood waste. Ideal if you’re producing a steady stream but don’t need a larger container.
Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) Containers (20–40 yard) or Trailers
Designed for high-volume producers in manufacturing, distribution or construction. These containers handle the largest loads with fewer collections, reducing your transport costs.
We’ll recommend the right option based on your waste audit, ensuring you get a solution that’s practical, cost-effective and space-efficient
A host of benefits
Wood Recycling – What to Expect
Tailored service schedules
Regular or on-demand collections designed to fit seamlessly around your operations and waste generation.
Unlimited quantity
Specialist storage solutions that can handle any size, shape or volume of wood to keep it safe and dry and reduce fire risks and other hazards.
Dedicated support
A friendly, helpful collections team and dedicated account manager provide complete peace of mind.
Secure online customer portal
Access to all your service information and compliance documents anytime, anywhere.
Reporting
Receive detailed and auditable waste reports, providing transparent data on volumes, recycling rate, and carbon savings, giving you measurable outcomes to report internally and externally.
How our waste wood collection service works
Talk to us
Tell us about the volume of waste wood your business generates, and where, or book a free waste audit with one of our experts at a time convenient to you. We will send you a bespoke proposal tailored to your requirements, showcasing how and where we can add value.
Get your containers
We will provide a range of dedicated bins or containers to fit your available space and operations, making it quick and convenient to safely collect and store all your wooden materials until we collect them. We will label your bins to help your staff use them correctly.
Collection
We will collect and empty your containers according to your schedule and safely transport your scrap wood back to our materials recycling facility. After each collection, you will receive a waste transfer note to keep you compliant with all relevant waste regulations, including the new Simpler Recycling rules.
Recycling
All the wood we collect is sorted and separated by type, then delivered to the most appropriate reprocessors to be recycled back into new wooden products or materials.
Ongoing Review
As your business activity evolves and your needs change, your account manager will work with you to ensure your waste management practices remain fit for purpose across all areas of your organisation.
Why choose Printwaste as your wood recycling partner?
Sustainability
We’ll turn your unwanted wood straight back into reusable wood-based materials or biomass, keeping to our zero-to-landfill promise.
Transparency
From the moment we collect your scrap wood to the moment it’s recycled, you’ll know what’s happened to it at every touchpoint.
Multi-site contracts
Single or multi-site, enjoy the ease of working with one point of contact across all locations and a streamlined approach to your waste management.
Cost-efficient
We can design and implement efficient processes to reduce your waste removal costs and enhance your sustainability credentials.
Flexible service
We flex to work around you, with one-off, next-day and on-demand collections available alongside your standard service schedule.
Added value
Enhanced reporting, waste audits and employee engagement programmes make us more than just a recycling provider.
Our Accreditations and Partners
Our commitment to excellence is backed by multiple accreditations and partners, including:
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Frequently asked questions
Got a question about our wood recycling service? Check out our FAQs below for more information. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please get in touch.
Where is your recycling facility?
We have dedicated materials recovery facilities in Cheltenham and Stoke Orchard, in Gloucestershire.
Why should my business recycle wood?
Recycling your scrap wood supports a more sustainable, circular approach to waste management. It can help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, prevent use of virgin wood and produce an energy source through biofuel. Recycling wood also helps lower carbon emissions associated with producing new wood products, because it requires less energy than processing new timber.
What’s the difference between Grade A and Grade C wood?
Our facility sorts recyclable wood into Grade A (clean, untreated and contaminant-free) and Grade C (treated or contaminated).
Grade A wood is shredded into reusable wood chippings for making materials like chipboard, MDF or animal bedding. Grade C wood undergoes specialist treatment to remove any contaminants before it is converted into biomass fuel.
Get started today
Let Printwaste take care of your waste wood. Contact us for a free quote and discover why businesses across the UK trust us with all their waste management needs.
