An Invitation To All BWF Members

In recent years, the BWF has been at the forefront of developing a strategy for wood waste management and resource efficiency, not just for the joinery sector, but across all sectors of the timber industry. The work helps shape future government policies on wood waste disposal and usage, and brings commercial benefits to BWF Members.

Thanks to our links with the Construction Products Association and via funding from WRAP (The Waste Resources Action Programme) and BRE Trust, we have been able to introduce a number of initiatives, primarily, the establishment of TREP (The Timber Resource Efficiency Partnership).

TREP is an alliance across all sectors of the timber industry and meets twice a year, with working groups undertaking other actions in between. It is open to any company or organisation that wishes to help develop ways of improving resource efficiency across the sector, but it also includes other organisations such as Defra, (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), WRAP, The Wood Recyclers Association as well as those in the timber supply and processing industries.

So here is an invitation for you to have your say and come along to our next meeting on March 28th at the Building Centre in London.

Lunch will be available from 12:45pm and the meeting is due to commence from 1:30pm, to finish at about 3:30pm.

We will be discussing how we plan to take TREP forward; work to establish collection hubs and wood waste collection schemes; work alongside government departments and other industry bodies; catch up on the latest wood waste market information.

And it’s a real opportunity for your company to be seen as a ‘mover and shaker’ in the industry.

Email: matthew.mahony@bwf.org.uk  to let him know you’re joining us and to receive the meeting papers and agenda.