Environmental Effects of Sawmilling Industry and Relevance of Wood Wastes in Nigeria
Abstract
There are numerous sawmills nowadays that process wood. A few of which are medium to large-sized, while a good number of them are small-sized. All these sawmill generate wood wastes during their primary processing. There are also some wood industries in the country but only few of them efficiently utilize their wood wastes. The wastes generated by these mills which could be inform of slabs, off-cut and sawdust among others cause environmental pollution and health hazard during burning. In order to avert this problem, there should be an efficient utilization of the wood wastes by converting them to usable products like particleboard, asbestos, cement/paper/sawdust composite board and briquettes. To this effect, a number of sawmills should form wood complexes so that the benefit accruing from the same volume of wood can be optimized.
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