Alderwood Tree Care attempts to recycle as much of its waste as possible.
Logs are cut to between 8 and 12 inches on site, then taken back to the yard where they are split and stacked under cover to season. They are sold the following year to domestic customers for their open fires and wood burning stoves.
Some pieces of birch, oak and beech of around 6 inches in diameter are cut to around 2 foot in length and used by customers as a host for exotic edible mushrooms.
A selection of trunk lengths are carved with a chainsaw, into solid pieces of garden
furniture. This can be done on site as part of the job or taken away and sold separately. Some straighter lengths of trunk can be processed into timber using the Alaskan chainsaw mill.
Wood chip can either be left on site for customers to use as a mulch for their flowerbeds and borders, or taken away to local allotments where it is used to create paths between plots. Any woodchip that is unsuitable for this purpose is taken to Fairfield Composting facility in East Manchester where it is processed into rich and sustainable compost used by organic farmers, nurseries, allotments and landscape gardeners.
