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Missoulian
- 10/19/09
Bitterroot Companies
Recycle Waste Wood for Energy
VICTOR - Valerie Bruce wanted to stop
the burning. The Oregon native has
asthma, and when she started to notice
all of the smoke from burned wood
waste around her Bitterroot Valley
home, she decided to do something
about it.
After attending a few meetings about
biomass and the future of burning,
a logger introduced Bruce, the manager
of Montana Firewood in Victor, to
ABCO Wood Recycling and the two businesses
formed a partnership.
"The less burning there is,
the better off we'll all be down here,"
she said. (read the full article
here)
Spokesman Review - 10/04/09
Fueling a New Industry
- Companies Turn Waste Wood Into Energy
When Shawn Montee finished a logging
job, thousands of BTUs of energy used
to go up in smoke.
His crews gathered up the logging slash
and torched it. To Montee, one of North
Idaho’s largest logging contractors,
the blazing slash piles always seemed
like a waste.
“There was all this good biomass,”
he said. “It was sad to see it
go up in flames.”
Five years ago, Montee started a spinoff
company, ABCO Wood Recycling Inc. Working
with three grinders and a crew of 45,
the company turns logging slash and
other wood waste, such as construction
debris, into biofuels. (read the
full article here,
subscription required)
Forest
Profiles - 7/03/09
REID AHLF
General Manager ABCO Wood Recycling,
Post Falls, Idaho
A giant pile of slash sits near
the north entrance to the Long Bridge
in Sandpoint. The pile is made up
of trees, limbs and stumps, removed
to make way for construction of
a byway around the community.
ABCO Wood Recycling will grind the
pile into hog fuel and then haul
it off. Its eventual use: energy
for a power plant, school or other
facility in the region.
The Sandpoint Byway project typifies
ABCO's efforts within the Inland
Northwest of clearing land and collecting
metal, cardboard, asphalt, concrete
and urban wood waste for a number
of recycled products, including
hog fuel for energy, lumber, and
landscape materials.
This cutting-edge method of removing
and recycling provides an exciting
new dimension to forester Reid Ahlf's
30-year career in the forest products
industry.
As general manager of ABCO since
2008, Reid oversees day-to-day operations
of the Post Falls-based company's
five wood recycling facilities.
(read the full article here)
Spokesman
Review - 01/03/09
Optionals Plentiful
for Disposing of Tree
ABCO Wood Recycling will provide
free recycling at locations in Coeur
d’Alene, Hayden, Post Falls,
Sandpoint and Spokane through Monday.
The company says the recycling sites
are manned by nonprofit organizations
that may request donations. (read
the full article here)
The
Daily Grind - 2/24/06
Wood recycling extends life of area
landfills
POST FALLS -- With their noses to the grindstone and their ears
muffed for safety, Abco's crews take the daily grind to a new,
literal level.
With the region's landfills filling all too fast,
the time was ripe for an alternative way to get rid of wood waste
from construction and development sites. (read the full article
here)
