Timber sleeper recovery hits 1.3 million

Access Recycling have recovered 1.3 million timber sleepers from an upgrade of the Sydney-Melbourne rail network over the past 6 months. This is equivalent to over 85,000 tonnes of timber. About half of the timber sleepers recovered were from NSW and half from the Victorian section of the track. Many of the sleepers are re-used on railway branch lines, but the majority are recycled for furniture, building and construction/landscape materials. Those that don't make the grade are cut up for firewood. The sleepers have proven to be very extremely clean, safe and well seasoned. Large volumes of low cost redgum and ironbark firewood of uniform size available for sale from depots in Albury/Wodonga and Seymour in Victoria and in Barmedman and Griffith in NSW. More information on Access Recycling's sleeper recovery