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The National Timber Product Stewardship Group (NTPSG) is an initiative of the timber and wood products industry to double the recovery of post-consumer timber and wood products to one million tonnes per year by 2017. Find out where to reuse or recycle your old wood product at our Timber Recycling Goods & Services Directory Find help and information to reuse or recycle wood products in our list of Resources News Headlines

Recycling Wood Competition Friday, 01 May 2009 00:00 Australian Wood Review Magazine recently ran a Wood Recycling Competion. Prizes included $1,000 cash and new tools. What could those old floorboards, fence posts and palings, pallets, wine barrels, railway sleepers, stair treads, house framing and so on be transformed into? Entries closed on 22nd January 2009. View the gallery of entries.   Interim Standards Released - Recycled Timber Products Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:00 Two Interim Industry Standards have been prepared under a project supported by Forest & Wood Products Australia and the Department of Tourism, Regional Development & Infrastructure - Qld with input and development from stakeholders, including industry associations, representatives of the recycled timber industry, government, researchers and specifiers. Download free copies of the Interim Standards.   NTPSG Tours Renewable Energy Plant in SE Queensland Sunday, 01 March 2009 00:00 Members of the NTPSG toured the Rocky Point Green Power Station located an hour south of Brisbane before their last meeting. Rocky Point uses 40,000 tonnes per year of post-consumer timber offcuts, pallets, crates, formwork and sawmill residues to produce electricity. Emissions from the plant, which also uses sugar cane harvesting residue (in season) and garden residue collected by local councils, are regarded as close to carbon neutral. Supply Manager Pat Keough cites the low degree of contamination and the clean burning of the post-consumer timber as reasons it is the preferred fuel for the plant.   Media Release: 12% Increase in Post-consumer Wood Recovery Friday, 28 November 2008 00:00 The National Timber Product Stewardship Group (NTPSG) is well on its way to achieving the goal of one million tonnes wood recovery per annum following the recording of a 12% increase in the 2006-07 financial year. The recovery of post-consumer wood is estimated at over 530,000 tonnes in 06-07 up from 474,000 when it was previously measured. The NTPSG comprises representatives from timber industry associations and companies from across the supply chain including forest growers, manufacturers, timber preservers, importers, wholesalers and retailers, with input from NSW and Queensland state government representatives. The group focuses on the recovery of post-consumer timber and wood products for reuse, recycling and as a source of renewable energy as well as maximizing the environmental benefits of wood products at the end-of-life stage. The figures are good news as a 7% average annual increase is what is needed to achieve the target of one million tonnes waste recovery per annum by 2017. Read more... [Media Release: 12% Increase in Post-consumer Wood Recovery]