Presented by Fabiano Ximenes, NSW Dept. of Primary Industries, Wednesday 11 September 2013.
Each year approximately two million tonnes of wood and engineered wood products (EWPs) are disposed off in landfills in Australia. Landfills have been the main disposal option for wood and EWPs in Australia for decades. Although the long-term storage in sawn products in landfills is reasonably well-documented, equivalent knowledge on the fate of the carbon in EWPs is limited. Based on a recent Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) sponsored research report (project PRB180-0910) the main objectives were to determine long-term carbon storage in EWPs recovered after excavations of a range of landfill types and to determine long-term carbon storage in particleboard, medium density fibreboard (MDF) and high-pressure laminate (HPL) placed in anaerobic reactors in the laboratory under optimal decay conditions.
Presenter:
Fabiano Ximenes has been working as a researcher for the NSW Government for the last 13 years, firstly with the State Forests of NSW and then with the NSW Dept. of Primary Industries. Fabiano has a Bachelor of Forestry from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and a Masters in Wood Science from the Australian National University. Fabiano is currently doing a part-time PhD on the carbon dynamics in wood and paper products in landfills.
